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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 hires an assassin to kill Norfolk.
(c) She says she will behead him by her own authority and faints.
(d) She is relieved and publicly thanks God.

2. How many people attend the state banquet in Westminster hall to celebrate Queen Elizabeth's coronation?
(a) 1,000.
(b) 12.
(c) 200.
(d) 50.

3. Who agrees to be the godmother to the infant son of Mary Stuart?
(a) Lady Lennox.
(b) Queen Elizabeth.
(c) Kat Ashley.
(d) Catherine de Medici.

4. In Chapter 5 of <i>Elizabeth the Great</i>, what act do Parliament and the Privy Council pass?
(a) A law making Robert Dudley her heir.
(b) The Act of Supremacy and Uniformity.
(c) A law raising taxes.
(d) A law outlawing Catholicism in England.

5. What is William Cecil's relationship with Elizabeth in Chapter 4?
(a) He is her guard while she is in the tower.
(b) He is her lover.
(c) He is her Secretary of State.
(d) He is her cousin.

Short Answer Questions

1. To whom does Elizabeth give a lock of graying red hair in 1572 when she is 39 years-old?

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

3. What kind of stockings does Mrs. Montagu give Queen Elizabeth in 1560?

4. What religion is Queen Mary Tudor determined to reinstate as England's national religion when she ascends to the throne?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Queen Elizabeth offer Lord Robert Dudley as a potential husband to Mary Stuart and what reasons do Mary Stuart and Dudley have for objecting to the union?

2. Discuss Queen Elizabeth's attitude toward the persecution of Catholics in England.

3. Explain how Queen Elizabeth's payment of the debts owed the City of London by King Henry VIII and King Edward VI increase her popularity with her people.

4. What folly does Queen Elizabeth's cousin, Mary Grey, commit? What previous examples in her own family should have taught her not to take this step?

5. When she breaks her promise to marry him, how does Queen Elizabeth gratify Prince Alenzon?

6. Explain Wyatt's rebellion. How does it affect Elizabeth?

7. Explain why Queen Elizabeth refuses to become Queen of Holland, Zeeland, and Utrecht when offered the title.

8. Discuss the plot of John Dudley, Earl of Warwick, and Duke of Northumberland, to put Lady Jane Grey on the throne after King Edward VI dies.

9. Discuss the role Thomas Seymour plays in English government once his nephew Edward becomes king of England and the role he hopes to play through his influence on Elizabeth.

10. Discuss the Earl of Essex's failures in Ireland.

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