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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Queen Elizabeth react when she receives word that Mary Stuart has been beheaded?
(a) She faints.
(b) She weeps.
(c) She laughs.
(d) She prays for Mary's soul.

2. When Queen Elizabeth has an abscessed tooth but fears to have her tooth pulled, what convinces her to consent to have the procedure done?
(a) The Bishop of London has his tooth pulled as an example.
(b) The Earl of Leicester offers to pull the tooth for her.
(c) Herbs can put her to sleep for the procedure.
(d) Her abscess causes a high fever that threatens her life.

3. When Queen Elizabeth is 54 years-old, how old is Robert Devereux, the Earl of Essex?
(a) 35.
(b) 54.
(c) 60.
(d) 21.

4. Why does Spain attack France in Chapter 27 of <i>Elizabeth the Great</i>?
(a) They want the French crown for Philip of Spain's daughter.
(b) They want revenge for French attacks on Spain.
(c) They want to restore Catholicism to Protestant France.
(d) They want to conquer the world.

5. What number has Essex's army of 16,000 men been reduced to due to his ineptitude?
(a) 4,000.
(b) 10,000.
(c) 1,000.
(d) 2,000.

6. With what country does the king of France threaten to ally if Queen Elizabeth does not marry Alenzon?
(a) Sweden.
(b) Germany.
(c) Spain.
(d) Italy.

7. What happens to the Duke of Norfolk at the end of Chapter 15?
(a) He is beheaded.
(b) He weds Mary Stuart.
(c) He escapes prison and runs away to Scotland.
(d) He is freed from the Tower.

8. Why does Queen Elizabeth refuse the Prince of Orange's request to become queen of additional lands?
(a) She would have to marry him to become the queen.
(b) The lands are too poor to interest her.
(c) Doing so would put England at open war with Spain.
(d) The lands are too infested with pirates to interest her.

9. When the Earl of Oxford mistreats his wife, Ann, to what does Burleigh attribute the younger man's misbehavior?
(a) The Earl's Catholicism and Ann's Protestantism.
(b) Oxford's preference for another woman.
(c) Burleigh's refusal to loan Oxford a large sum of money.
(d) Ann's infidelity.

10. To whom does Queen Elizabeth confide in Chapter 21 that she hates the idea of marriage more every day?
(a) The Earl of Sussex.
(b) The Earl of Leicester.
(c) Sir Francis Walsingham.
(d) Sir Philip Sidney.

11. What does Queen Elizabeth decide to do with Alenzon?
(a) She marries him.
(b) She has him assassinated.
(c) She gives him money and sends him to the Netherlands.
(d) She helps him seize the French throne from his brother.

12. Who says the Massacre of St. Bartholomew is the greatest crime since the Crucifixion?
(a) Queen Elizabeth.
(b) The Pope.
(c) Lord Burleigh.
(d) The Earl of Leicester.

13. What happens to Lady Lennox as a result of her matchmaking for a youth of royal blood without the Crown's permission?
(a) She is imprisoned in the Tower.
(b) She is banished to Scotland.
(c) She is beheaded.
(d) She is hung.

14. Who does Lady Lennox arrange a marriage with for her son Lord Charles Stuart, a claimant to the English throne?
(a) Mary Stuart.
(b) Catherine Grey.
(c) Elizabeth Cavendish.
(d) Catherine de Medici.

15. What does Queen Elizabeth ask to see when she visits Dr. John Dee at the beginning of Chapter 18?
(a) His new horses.
(b) his Spanish gold.
(c) His speculum of magic glass.
(d) His new wife.

Short Answer Questions

1. What physical ailment on Queen Elizabeth's leg heals in 1578?

2. When Alenzon and his ambassador are walking with Queen Elizabeth, what actions of the queen indicate her intent to marry Alenzon?

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

4. In addition to anyone who murders Queen Elizabeth, who does the Bond of Associate bind Queen Elizabeth's Privy Council to pursue to death?

5. What is the Earl of Essex sentenced to for his crime?

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