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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. With Spain supporting Mary Stuart and planning to invade England on her behalf, with what country is it important for Queen Elizabeth and England to form an alliance?
(a) Ireland.
(b) France.
(c) Germany.
(d) Sweden.

2. What action does Pope Pius take against Queen Elizabeth in 1570?
(a) He excommunicates her.
(b) He curses her and asks God to smite her.
(c) He hires an assassin to kill her.
(d) He calls Europe to war against her.

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

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

5. Who is murdered in the presence of the pregnant Mary Stuart?
(a) Catherine de Medici.
(b) Rizzio.
(c) Lord Darnley.
(d) Lady Lennox.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who keeps Princess Elizabeth from her dying brother's bedside and intercepts her correspondence to the young king?

2. Which of the following is not a place where glass is used in England as peacetime prosperity develops an increasing market for it?

3. Where does Queen Elizabeth send Mary Stuart to at the end of Chapter 11?

4. In Chapter 2 of <i>Elizabeth the Great</i>, who is caught with the teenage Princess Elizabeth in his arms and eventually taken to the Tower and executed for planning to marry her without the king's Privy Council?

5. What religion does Catherine Parr encourage Princess Elizabeth and Prince Edward to study?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Queen Elizabeth encourage rather than discourage Francis Drake's piracy?

2. Discuss Queen Elizabeth's seizing of Spanish gold chests and the retaliation against England by Spain.

3. What does the fact that she is playing the virginals when the Earl of Essex is executed indicate about Queen Elizabeth's feelings for Essex?

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

5. Discuss the demand for glass that arises during Queen Elizabeth's reign.

6. Explain the role of Henry VIII in the establishment of the Church of England.

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

8. Who is Dr. Dee and why does Queen Elizabeth want to see his speculum of magic glass?

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

10. Discuss the downfall of Mary Stuart after her involvement with the Earl of Bothwell. How does it lead to her forced abdication of her throne?

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