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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What powerful country supports the marriage of Mary Stuart to Darnley?
(a) France.
(b) Scotland.
(c) Spain.
(d) England.

3. What does Elizabeth ride in through London to Westminster on the Saturday before her coronation?
(a) A silk-draped litter carried by eight footmen.
(b) A golden coach.
(c) A coach draped with rubies and pearls.
(d) A chariot draped with crimson velvet.

4. Who becomes Lord High Admiral of the English navy after King Henry VIII's death?
(a) Robert Dudley, the Earl of Leicester.
(b) Sir Francis Drake.
(c) Sir Christopher Hatton.
(d) Thomas Seymour, Somerset's brother & Edward's uncle.

5. What kind of stockings does Mrs. Montagu give Queen Elizabeth in 1560?
(a) Knitted silk stockings.
(b) Worsted stockings.
(c) Taffeta stockings.
(d) Wool stockings.

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 never marry.
(b) That she could not wait to marry.
(c) That she wanted to marry Leicester.
(d) That she would marry six times like her father.

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

8. How old is Elizabeth when she becomes queen of England?
(a) 32.
(b) 50.
(c) 25.
(d) 12.

9. Which of the following actions does not occur in response to what Queen Elizabeth does with the cargo of the four Spanish ships?
(a) Spain imprisons English merchants in the Netherlands.
(b) Spain seizes English merchants' goods in the Netherlands.
(c) A peace treaty is signed between England and Spain.
(d) England seizes property of Spanish men in England.

10. What happens to Lord Darnley in Edinburgh the day before he marries Mary Stuart?
(a) He is proclaimed King of Scotland.
(b) He drowns.
(c) He gets the plague.
(d) He is killed in a sword fight.

11. In whom does Mary Stuart confide when her marriage to Lord Darnley becomes unhappy?
(a) Lady Lennox.
(b) Sir William Cecil.
(c) Rizzio, her Italian secretary.
(d) Queen Elizabeth of England.

12. How do others see Lord Darnley?
(a) As a scholar.
(b) As a brainless, arrogant fool.
(c) As a brilliant politician.
(d) As a spiritual leader.

13. What are pearls said to symbolize?
(a) Wealth.
(b) Women.
(c) Psychic ability.
(d) Virginity.

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

15. Which of the following statements does not describe an effect the pope's actions against Queen Elizabeth have on English Catholics?
(a) Elizabeth's policy of religious compromise is shattered.
(b) They are traitors to the queen if obedient to the Pope.
(c) They are disobedient to the Pope if loyal to the queen.
(d) Mary Stuart is crowned Queen of England.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Queen Elizabeth suggest as a potential husband for Mary Stuart?

2. What is King Henry VIII's relationship to Lady Jane Grey?

3. Which of Queen Elizabeth's suitors does Sir William Cecil draw a table of the pros and cons of the potential marriage?

4. When Mary Stuart demands that Queen Elizabeth send her clothes suitable for her position, what does one of Elizabeth's maids send Mary?

5. What does Queen Elizabeth do with the cargo of the Spanish ships?

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