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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Mary respond to Charles V putting his son Prince Philip as a candidate for marriage?
(a) She was apprehensive.
(b) She was disappointed.
(c) She was enthusiastic.
(d) She was furious.

2. What were Philip II's motives for returning to England?
(a) Politics.
(b) Safety.
(c) Family.
(d) Love.

3. What did Philip pressure Mary to do when she became ill after her second phantom pregnancy?
(a) Meet him in Spain.
(b) Abdicate the throne.
(c) Condemn heretics.
(d) Write her last will.

4. Why did Mary not want Jane Grey to be executed?
(a) Because she was opposed to the death penalty.
(b) Because she felt that Jane was a pawn.
(c) Because she thought it was hypocritical.
(d) Because she worried this would be her fate too.

5. What were two political reasons for Philip of Spain's marriage to Queen Mary?
(a) To conquer France and produce a Catholic heir for England.
(b) To reconcile England with Rome and produce a Catholic heir for both countries.
(c) To reconcile England with Rome and produce a Catholic heir for Spain.
(d) To conquer France and produce a Catholic heir for both countries.

6. What happened on Elizabeth's journey back to London at Queen Mary's request?
(a) She tried to escape.
(b) She was almost kidnapped.
(c) She witnessed a mob.
(d) She was very ill.

7. What relative of Philip's died while awaiting the birth of a child that he could not leave?
(a) King Charles.
(b) Queen Isabella.
(c) Queen Juana.
(d) King Edward.

8. According to Weir, Charles V did not want Philip of Spain in England while what?
(a) Edward Courtenay lived.
(b) Thomas Wyatt lived.
(c) Elizabeth lived.
(d) Jane Grey lived.

9. When was Elizabeth's romance with Lord Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, believed to have begun?
(a) When she was taken to Whitehall.
(b) At the manor of Oxford.
(c) Before her sister's marriage.
(d) During her confinement.

10. How did Prince Philip of Spain's wife Maria of Portugal die?
(a) Childbirth.
(b) Typhus.
(c) Murder.
(d) Suicide.

11. What happened when Henry Grey, Duke of Suffolk, reached out to communicate with his daughter Jane Grey after he was captured?
(a) They reconciled.
(b) They did not reconciled.
(c) It was too late for conversion.
(d) They converted.

12. What was Frances Brandon's second husband's occupation?
(a) Master of Horse.
(b) Keeper of Clocks.
(c) Tanner.
(d) Haberdasher.

13. What act did Parliament repeal so that England could be reunited?
(a) Act of Succession.
(b) Act of Supremacy.
(c) Act of Reformation.
(d) Act of Uniformity.

14. Who of the group led by Thomas Wyatt confessed their plans for a Protestant rebellion to Stephen Gardiner?
(a) Thomas Wyatt.
(b) Edward Courtenay.
(c) William Cecil.
(d) Peter Carew.

15. Where did Stephen Gardiner want Elizabeth kept while others were reluctant because they believed she would soon take the throne after her sister's death?
(a) Greenwich.
(b) Whitehall.
(c) Manor of Oxford.
(d) The Tower.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was appointed Lord Chancellor and Keeper of the Great Seal and was Queen Mary's trusted adviser?

2. What effect did Mary's Counter-Reformation have that was the opposite of what she intended?

3. How did Mary feel about her sister Elizabeth who stayed at court after Philip's departure?

4. The council warned Mary that opposing Jane Grey's execution would be perceived as what?

5. What did the act Parliament ratified to eradicate heresy from England give bishops the power to do?

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