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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. A wrestling match is to take place between the Cornishman and ________________.

2. What is Queen Mary doing as Lymond leaves her?

3. What worries Lymond about showing up at the French court?

4. Who takes Lymond into her home and cares for him?

5. It is learned that Queen Mary is to die during ____________________.

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Lymond spend much of his time doing in this chapter regarding the Stewarts?

2. Who is the man the author refers to in the riddle about fasting? Why should this man have maintained his plan to starve himself to death?

3. What deal does the French Ambassador offer to Brice and why is Brice reluctant to take it?

4. Why is it important for O'LiamRoe to go to Oonagh to attain her compliance with talking about the murder plot?

5. Who does Lymond tell Richard is the would-be assassin? How does Lymond know this?

6. Who is Antonius Beck? What does Lymond ask Michel Herisson to do regarding Beck?

7. Whose name does Oonagh give O'LiamRoe as the other henchman involved in the murder plot?

8. How does O'LiamRoe enjoy the English court and what is the one aspect of the French court that is still of interest to him?

9. How does O'LiamRoe unwittingly stumble upon information related to the plot to kill Queen Mary?

10. What is the purpose of the arrival in France of the English Ambassage Extraordinary?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe Jenny Fleming. What is her role in the story? What was the author trying to accomplish by developing Jenny's character in the novel?

Essay Topic 2

Create a brief character study of Mary Queen of Scots. What did she look like? What were her positive personality traits? What were some of her negative characteristics? What were her hopes and fears? What motivated her throughout her life?

Essay Topic 3

There are several events of foreshadowing in QUEENS' PLAY. Define foreshadowing. Cite at least two situations in the story that serve as foreshadowing.

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