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

2. Who wants to marry Don Carlos, a criminal lunatic, to gain an alliance with Spain to help dethrone Elizabeth?
(a) Elizabeth.
(b) Mary Stuart.
(c) Lettice Devereux.
(d) Catherine Grey.

3. Which of the following actions does not occur in response to what Queen Elizabeth does with the cargo of the four Spanish ships?
(a) Spain seizes English merchants' goods in the Netherlands.
(b) A peace treaty is signed between England and Spain.
(c) Spain imprisons English merchants in the Netherlands.
(d) England seizes property of Spanish men in England.

4. If Mary Stuart agrees to accept the husband Queen Elizabeth suggests for her, what might Elizabeth consent to do for Mary?
(a) Give her an Army to help her take the French Crown.
(b) Give her an English estate.
(c) Name her as heiress-presumptive to the English Crown.
(d) Be godmother to her children.

5. When representatives of Parliament beg the queen to marry, who does Queen Elizabeth claim to already be married to?
(a) Lord Robert Dudley.
(b) Sir Christopher Hatton.
(c) The Kingdom of England.
(d) Sir William Cecil.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do Scotland's Protestant Lords deal with Lord Darnley?

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

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

4. Why is Queen Elizabeth called "Queen of the Sea?"

5. How many people attend the state banquet in Westminster hall to celebrate Queen Elizabeth's coronation?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the author's intention in writing <i>Elizabeth the Great</i>? How does her intention affect the shape of the book?

2. What factors help the English prevail over the Spanish Armada?

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. As Queen Elizabeth ages and her old advisors die and are replaced, what kind of man is the queen most fond of and does this fondness differ from the kind of men she was fond of in her youth?

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

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

7. 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.

8. Why is the murder of Rizzio, the Italian advisor to Mary Stuart, important?

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

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

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