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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. Who becomes King of Scotland when Mary Stuart is forced to abdicate?
(a) The Earl of Leicester.
(b) James, her 13 month-old son.
(c) Lord Bothwell.
(d) Lord Darnley.

2. Where does Queen Elizabeth send Mary Stuart to at the end of Chapter 11?
(a) Spain.
(b) Tutbury Castle.
(c) Hatfield Palace.
(d) France.

3. Where does the author say she gets her information about the queen from?
(a) Secret diaries of Lord Burleigh.
(b) Secret diaries of Queen Elizabeth.
(c) Spanish and French documents about Elizabeth I.
(d) Various sources already published.

4. To whom does Queen Elizabeth give the Earldom of Leicester?
(a) Edward Courtenay.
(b) Sir William Cecil.
(c) Lord Darnley.
(d) Lord Robert Dudley.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who shows over familiarity with the queen by taking her napkin out of her hand to wipe his sweaty face during a tennis game?

2. In Chapter 5 of <i>Elizabeth the Great</i>, what act do Parliament and the Privy Council pass?

3. What do the Catholic bishops not want to do for Queen Elizabeth's coronation?

4. Whose household does Princess Elizabeth live in after her father's death?

5. In whom does Mary Stuart confide when her marriage to Lord Darnley becomes unhappy?

Short Essay Questions

1. Discuss Lord Darnley's claim to the English throne. What factors make him a potential husband for Mary Stuart?

2. Discuss Queen Elizabeth's bout with smallpox and what fear her illness arouses in her councilors.

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

4. 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.

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

6. What signs are there that Queen Elizabeth is not as strongly influenced by the Earl of Essex as many of her advisors fear?

7. What is Elizabeth's relationship with her brother, King Edward VI, like?

8. 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.

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

10. Discuss how Lord Darnley becomes king of Scotland and what the Protestant Lords of Scotland feel about his elevated role.

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