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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 does Queen Elizabeth do with the cargo of the Spanish ships?
(a) Sends it to Spain.
(b) Takes it to the Tower and keeps it.
(c) Gives it away to her people.
(d) Sends it to France.

2. What colors does Queen Elizabeth tell Spanish ambassador Don Guzman de Silva are her colors?
(a) Black and white.
(b) Black, red, and gray.
(c) Red, green, and blue.
(d) Yellow and white.

3. What religion is Queen Mary Tudor determined to reinstate as England's national religion when she ascends to the throne?
(a) Judaism.
(b) Protestantism.
(c) Paganism.
(d) Catholicism.

4. According to the introduction, on what does the book focus?
(a) Life in England during Elizabeth's reign.
(b) The Spanish Armada.
(c) The Protestant Reformation.
(d) Queen Elizabeth I.

5. Why does Mary Stuart refuse to ratify the Treaty of Edinburgh?
(a) It gives Scotland to Elizabeth.
(b) It gives Scotland to France.
(c) It recognizes Elizabeth as Queen of England.
(d) It gives Scotland to Spain.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who marries his son to Lady Jane Grey because of her place in the line of succession to the throne of England?

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

3. Who is Princess Elizabeth's mother?

4. Who tries to seize Princess Mary and Princess Elizabeth after King Edward's death, proclaiming Lady Jane Grey as queen of England in place of Henry VIII's daughters?

5. What kind of ships is the English channel swarming with at the beginning of Chapter 12?

Short Essay Questions

1. What action does Pope Pius take against the Protestant Elizabeth in 1570 and what effect does it have on Queen Elizabeth's policy of religious tolerance.

2. Discuss Queen Elizabeth's coronation. How do the people of England accept her at the beginning of her reign?

3. Discuss the Earl of Leicester's marriage to Lettice Devereux and its affect on his relationship with Queen Elizabeth.

4. 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.

5. Discuss the irony of the date of Elizabeth's death.

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

7. What factors allow Mary Stuart to engage in perpetual intrigue with France and Spain while she is living in England?

8. 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.

9. Why is Queen Elizabeth reluctant to behead Mary Stuart?

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

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