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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What poet writes Queen Elizabeth about the disadvantages of marrying Prince Alenzon?
(a) Sir Philip Sidney.
(b) Shelley.
(c) Shakespeare.
(d) Byron.

2. With what married woman and cousin of Queen Elizabeth does the Earl of Leicester have an affair?
(a) Catherine Grey.
(b) Lady Lennox.
(c) Lettice Devereux.
(d) Lady Mary Sidney.

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

4. What countries do skilled workers in things like felt, thread, lace, and silk come from, bringing their thriving trades with them?
(a) Germany and Sweden.
(b) Italy and Spain.
(c) The Netherlands and France.
(d) China and Japan.

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

6. Who does the Scottish Regent Morton implicate in Lord Darnley's murder?
(a) Lord Burleigh.
(b) Queen Elizabeth.
(c) The Earl of Leicester.
(d) Mary Stuart.

7. With whom does Sir Philip Sidney fall in love?
(a) Elizabeth Cavendish.
(b) Penelope Devereux.
(c) Queen Elizabeth.
(d) Lettice Devereux.

8. Why does the Privy Council not mention Lord Burleigh's name to Queen Elizabeth after Burleigh dies?
(a) Burleigh was guilty of treason against the queen.
(b) The queen hated Burleigh.
(c) Queen Elizabeth had Burleigh executed.
(d) It makes Queen Elizabeth cry.

9. After 1588, a cult develops in Europe exalting Queen Elizabeth to supernatural status as what deities?
(a) Isis and Freya.
(b) Ceridwen and Demeter.
(c) Diana or Cynthia, goddess of chastity and moonlight.
(d) Athena and Hera.

10. Who do the English blame for the Massacre of St. Bartholomew?
(a) Mary Stuart.
(b) King Philip of Spain.
(c) Catherine de Medici.
(d) The Pope.

11. What skin disease has been thought from the time of Edward the Confessor to be curable by the sovereign's touch?
(a) Vitiligo.
(b) Scrofula, a tubercular skin infection.
(c) Leprosy.
(d) Warts.

12. Who will finance the invasion Mary Stuart anticipates?
(a) Catherine de Medici.
(b) King James of Scotland.
(c) The King of Spain.
(d) The Duke of Guise.

13. Who raises Lord Burleigh's grandchildren?
(a) Sir Francis Walsingham.
(b) Lord Burleigh and his wife.
(c) Lord Burleigh's daughter, Ann.
(d) Queen Elizabeth.

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

15. What does Queen Elizabeth do with the treasure Francis Drake brings home from Spanish ships his pirates have looted?
(a) Returns it to Spain.
(b) Gives it to Prince Alenzon.
(c) Pays her soldiers to make war on Scotland.
(d) Keeps it and pays back Drake's investors.

Short Answer Questions

1. When the Church of England is criticized for appointing incompetent clergy, which of the following is not the kind of man Queen Elizabeth advises the bishops to appoint?

2. What gift does the Earl of Leicester send Queen Elizabeth on New Year's day in 1580 to distract her from marrying Prince Alenzon?

3. What hunchback becomes Queen Elizabeth's advisor and England's Lord Treasurer, replacing his father in the position?

4. What does Queen Elizabeth do to combat Catherine de Medici's plans for Mary Stuart?

5. Who is the Earl of Essex's mother?

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