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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 disobedient to the Pope if loyal to the queen.
(c) They are traitors to the queen if obedient to the Pope.
(d) Mary Stuart is crowned Queen of England.

2. Which of Queen Elizabeth's suitors does Sir William Cecil draw a table of the pros and cons of the potential marriage?
(a) King Philip of Spain.
(b) The Earl of Leicester.
(c) Prince Alenzon.
(d) Archduke Charles.

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

4. Why is Queen Elizabeth called "Queen of the Sea?"
(a) Because she swims a lot.
(b) Because she has a large Navy.
(c) Because of her interest in the Navy.
(d) Because England is a seafaring nation.

5. What happens to Princess Elizabeth's mother when the princess is just a toddler?
(a) She is accused of adultery and treason and beheaded.
(b) She dies in childbirth.
(c) She dies of smallpox.
(d) She drowns at sea while traveling with the king.

6. 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.

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

8. What is Queen Elizabeth's reaction when her Privy Council finds insufficient evidence to charge Norfolk with treason?
(a) She has Norfolk poisoned in secret to make sure he is dead.
(b) She is relieved and publicly thanks God.
(c) She says she will behead him by her own authority and faints.
(d) She hires an assassin to kill Norfolk.

9. 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 to marry Princess Elizabeth to Edward Courtenay.
(c) A plot that results in Elizabeth going to the Tower.
(d) A French plot to make Mary Stuart Queen of England.

10. What does the author say the aim of the book is in the introduction?
(a) To earn the author a doctoral degree.
(b) To collect interesting personal information about Elizabeth I.
(c) To show how similar Elizabeth I was to her father Henry VIII.
(d) To record the history of the Tudor dynasty.

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

12. According to King Henry's will, what is the order of succession to the throne?
(a) Edward, Mary, Elizabeth.
(b) Mary, Edward, Lady Jane Grey.
(c) Lady Jane Grey, Edward, Mary.
(d) Mary, Elizabeth, Edward.

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

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

15. Who becomes the ruler of England after King Henry VIII's death when Elizabeth is 14 years-old?
(a) Elizabeth's nine-year-old half brother, Edward.
(b) Elizabeth's 27 year-old half sister, Mary Tudor.
(c) Lady Jane Grey.
(d) Mary Stuart.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What married man does Mary Stuart take as her lover in Chapter 11?

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

4. What Catholic does William Cecil think will ascend to the throne and revive Catholicism in England if the Protestant Queen Elizabeth dies without a child?

5. How old is Elizabeth when she becomes queen of England?

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