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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. Which of the following is not a place where glass is used in England as peacetime prosperity develops an increasing market for it?
(a) Windows of great houses and shops.
(b) Drinking and looking glasses.
(c) Church altars.
(d) Bathing pools

2. What keeps Queen Elizabeth's complexion so white?
(a) Elizabeth is an albino.
(b) Elizabeth avoids sunlight.
(c) Elizabeth wears a white powder.
(d) A lotion of egg white, eggshell, alum, borax & poppyseeds.

3. When Queen Elizabeth hesitates to intervene in the Protestant rebellion in Scotland, how does William Cecil persuade her to take action?
(a) He asks Lord Robert Dudley to persuade her.
(b) He threatens to resign.
(c) He tells her Mary Stuart has declared war.
(d) He tells her the nobles support war.

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

5. Who expects to be named Queen Elizabeth's "heiress-presumptive"?
(a) Kat Ashley.
(b) Mary Stuart.
(c) Catherine Grey.
(d) Lady Lennox.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Queen Elizabeth revive the Royal Navy?

2. Who promotes Lord Darnley as a potential husband for Mary Stuart?

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

4. Which of the following statements does not describe an effect the pope's actions against Queen Elizabeth have on English Catholics?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. By the time Queen Elizabeth is 60 years-old, what trait has become more pronounced in her?

3. Why does the Duke of Anjou not want to marry Queen Elizabeth when his parents suggest the match?

4. Discuss the plot Spanish ambassador Don Gerau De Spies has to restore England to Catholicism.

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

6. 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?

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 Queen Elizabeth so upset that she faints when insufficient evidence of treason is found against Norfolk?

9. 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?

10. What is the Bond of Association?

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