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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 19.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. At the beginning of Chapter 8, what does Parliament want to force Queen Elizabeth to do?
(a) Declare war on France.
(b) Declare war on Spain.
(c) Marry.
(d) Surrender her throne to Catherine Grey.

2. What keeps Queen Elizabeth's complexion so white?
(a) Elizabeth wears a white powder.
(b) A lotion of egg white, eggshell, alum, borax & poppyseeds.
(c) Elizabeth is an albino.
(d) Elizabeth avoids sunlight.

3. What happens when Mary Stuart desires to return to Scotland through England?
(a) Her request for a passport is denied.
(b) English Catholics try to put her on the English throne.
(c) She gets smallpox.
(d) Her boat capsizes in the English Channel.

4. What happens to bring Princess Elizabeth to the English throne in place of Mary, her sister?
(a) Elizabeth weds Edward Courtenay and overthrows Mary.
(b) Mary dies after a long illness.
(c) Mary is overthrown by Mary Stuart and taken to the Tower.
(d) Mary is murdered by Protestant sympathizers.

5. Who expects to be named Queen Elizabeth's "heiress-presumptive"?
(a) Kat Ashley.
(b) Lady Lennox.
(c) Mary Stuart.
(d) Catherine Grey.

Short Answer Questions

1. What debts does Queen Elizabeth pay off in 1573?

2. Who agrees to be the godmother to the infant son of Mary Stuart?

3. Why does Lord Burleigh's son-in-law, the Earl of Oxford, become angry with Lord Burleigh in Chapter 17?

4. Who keeps Princess Elizabeth from her dying brother's bedside and intercepts her correspondence to the young king?

5. What does the author say hair is washed with during Queen Elizabeth's lifetime?

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