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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 17, Little Children Like Angels.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Jane Grey prefer to dress, in contrast to her parents wishes?
(a) She preferred night frocks.
(b) She preferred expensive fabrics.
(c) She preferred boy's attire.
(d) She preferred simple dresses.

2. How did the English people feel toward Philip of Spain once he was married to the queen?
(a) They admired him.
(b) They resented him.
(c) They loved him.
(d) They obeyed him.

3. What was the name of the epidemic that broke out in the summer of 1551?
(a) Plague.
(b) Black death.
(c) Typhus.
(d) Sweating sickness.

4. Who interrogated Elizabeth after Thomas Seymour was taken to the Tower?
(a) Sir William Sharington.
(b) Thomas Parry.
(c) Kat Ashley.
(d) Sir Robert Tyrwhit.

5. What year did Parliament pass the Act of Uniformity that declared the Book of Common Prayer to be used in all church services?
(a) 1548.
(b) 1551.
(c) 1549.
(d) 1550.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why was Jean Dubois sent to England, according to Weir?

2. Why was Mary kept in the country after Henry VIII's death?

3. When Thomas Wyatt confessed to the council about contacting Elizabeth twice, what did he tell her?

4. On what date was Queen Mary officially betrothed to Philip of Spain?

5. Why were both Catholics and Protestants offended by Edward Seymour, the Duke of Somerset's politics, which made him unpopular?

(see the answer key)

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