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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 28.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the author say hair is washed with during Queen Elizabeth's lifetime?
(a) Olive oil.
(b) Lye.
(c) Honeysuckle.
(d) Lavender and roses.

2. Who wants to marry Don Carlos, a criminal lunatic, to gain an alliance with Spain to help dethrone Elizabeth?
(a) Mary Stuart.
(b) Catherine Grey.
(c) Elizabeth.
(d) Lettice Devereux.

3. What does Sir Thomas Gresham establish in London on Cornhill in 1571?
(a) A printing shop.
(b) A seat of commercial exchange.
(c) A silk cloth manufacturing firm.
(d) A glass-making shop.

4. Which beloved friend and councilor of Queen Elizabeth's dies at the end of Chapter 25?
(a) Sir Francis Walsingham.
(b) Lord Burleigh.
(c) The Earl of Leicester.
(d) The Earl of Sussex.

5. When the Irish rebellion becomes urgent, who does Queen Elizabeth initially want to send to Ireland?
(a) Mountjoy.
(b) Francis Bacon.
(c) Robert Cecil.
(d) The Earl of Essex.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Mary Stuart refuse to divorce Lord Darnley?

2. Who marries Lord Sheffield's widow four days before she gives birth to his son?

3. What is William Cecil's relationship with Elizabeth in Chapter 4?

4. When Queen Elizabeth sends the Earl of Essex to Ireland with orders to attack the Irish rebel Tyrone, what does the earl do?

5. Who is assassinated in 1584?

(see the answer key)

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