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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the Earl of Essex sentenced to for his crime?
(a) To be beheaded.
(b) To be hung.
(c) To be imprisoned in the Tower.
(d) To be burned alive.

2. Why does King Philip of Spain think England is his territory?
(a) The Pope has given it to him in God's name.
(b) His mother was an English princess.
(c) God has given it to him to restore it to Catholicism.
(d) Mary Stuart bequeathed it to him.

3. To whom does King Philip of Spain decide to give England?
(a) To one of his daughters.
(b) To Prince Alenzon.
(c) To his wife.
(d) To the Earl of Leicester.

4. Who does Queen Elizabeth name as her successor?
(a) Lettice Devereux.
(b) King Philip of Spain.
(c) Lord Charles Stuart.
(d) King James of Scotland.

5. Why does Queen Elizabeth refuse the Prince of Orange's request to become queen of additional lands?
(a) She would have to marry him to become the queen.
(b) The lands are too poor to interest her.
(c) Doing so would put England at open war with Spain.
(d) The lands are too infested with pirates to interest her.

Short Answer Questions

1. When the Earl of Essex hides in his house and refuses to answer a summons to appear before the Privy Council, what do Lord Nottingham and Sir Henry Sidney do to get him to come out?

2. What number has Essex's army of 16,000 men been reduced to due to his ineptitude?

3. What does Sir Thomas Gresham establish in London on Cornhill in 1571?

4. What name does Queen Elizabeth give what Sir Thomas Gresham establishes in London in 1571?

5. What is the Babington plot?

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