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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens when the Scottish Lords try to rescue Mary Stuart from Tutbury Castle where she is being held?
(a) They succeed in rescuing her and escape to Scotland.
(b) They are reported to the queen and flee to France.
(c) They are intercepted by English troops and battle ensues.
(d) They find she has been moved to Coventry.

2. What does Queen Elizabeth do with the cargo of the Spanish ships?
(a) Sends it to Spain.
(b) Gives it away to her people.
(c) Sends it to France.
(d) Takes it to the Tower and keeps it.

3. When Amy Dudley is found at the bottom of a staircase with a broken neck, who is immediately suspected of murdering her?
(a) Her husband, Lord Robert Dudley.
(b) Mary Stuart.
(c) Sir Christopher Hammond.
(d) William Cecil.

4. If Mary Stuart agrees to accept the husband Queen Elizabeth suggests for her, what might Elizabeth consent to do for Mary?
(a) Name her as heiress-presumptive to the English Crown.
(b) Give her an Army to help her take the French Crown.
(c) Give her an English estate.
(d) Be godmother to her children.

5. To whom does Queen Elizabeth give the Earldom of Leicester?
(a) Lord Robert Dudley.
(b) Edward Courtenay.
(c) Sir William Cecil.
(d) Lord Darnley.

6. What does the Earl of Leicester tell the French ambassador that Queen Elizabeth said about marriage when she was eight years-old?
(a) That she would marry six times like her father.
(b) That she wanted to marry Leicester.
(c) That she would never marry.
(d) That she could not wait to marry.

7. What action does Pope Pius take against Queen Elizabeth in 1570?
(a) He hires an assassin to kill her.
(b) He calls Europe to war against her.
(c) He curses her and asks God to smite her.
(d) He excommunicates her.

8. 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 avoids sunlight.
(d) Elizabeth is an albino.

9. What do four Spanish ships that take refuge in Plymouth and Southampton in December 1568 carry?
(a) Jewels and silks from the Orient.
(b) A potential bridegroom for Queen Elizabeth.
(c) 85,000 pounds of gold.
(d) Soldiers to invade the English coast.

10. How does the author say teeth are cleaned during Queen Elizabeth's lifetime?
(a) By rinsing the mouth with water and salt.
(b) Teeth were never cleaned then.
(c) By using a toothbrush just like people today use.
(d) By rubbing them with a cloth and using a toothpick.

11. Which of the following is not an action Sir William Cecil advises Queen Elizabeth to take to reduce the danger of Mary Stuart seizing the English throne?
(a) Disallowing Mary Stuart's divorce from Bothwell.
(b) Keeping Mary Stuart in prison.
(c) Publicly declaring Mary Stuart guilty of Darnley's murder.
(d) Forcing Mary Stuart to marry the Earl of Leicester.

12. How does Queen Elizabeth revive the Royal Navy?
(a) She drafts more men into the Navy.
(b) She sends medicine to ailing sailors.
(c) She offers titles and lands for joining the Navy.
(d) She increases sailors' wages and builds strong ships.

13. Which of the following is not a place where glass is used in England as peacetime prosperity develops an increasing market for it?
(a) Bathing pools
(b) Church altars.
(c) Drinking and looking glasses.
(d) Windows of great houses and shops.

14. Which of the following statements does not describe Wyatt's Rebellion depicted in Chapter 3?
(a) A plan to stop the Spanish marriage of Queen Mary.
(b) A plot that results in Elizabeth going to the Tower.
(c) A plot to marry Princess Elizabeth to Edward Courtenay.
(d) A French plot to make Mary Stuart Queen of England.

15. Where is the Duke of Norfolk sent to at the end of Chapter 12?
(a) Scotland.
(b) The Tower.
(c) France.
(d) Italy.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who ends up in the Tower instead of the princesses because of the attempt to put Lady Jane Grey on the throne?

2. What happens to Lord Darnley in Edinburgh the day before he marries Mary Stuart?

3. What colors does Queen Elizabeth tell Spanish ambassador Don Guzman de Silva are her colors?

4. In Chapter 2 of <i>Elizabeth the Great</i>, who is caught with the teenage Princess Elizabeth in his arms and eventually taken to the Tower and executed for planning to marry her without the king's Privy Council?

5. What happens to Princess Elizabeth's mother when the princess is just a toddler?

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