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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. How did Mary respond to heretics during her Counter-Reformation?

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

3. John Dudley, Earl of Warwick and Duke of Northumberland, was executed on what date?

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

5. Why did Mary disallow Jane Grey's daily walks and freedoms at the Tower?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Philip behave in Brussels during the process of Charles V's abdication?

2. What was Philip's behavior and feeling toward Mary, and why is it significant?

3. What was the atmosphere at Hampton court when Mary and Philip arrived to await the birth of their first child?

4. Describe the relationship between Philip and Elizabeth at Hampton Court, and why was it significant?

5. What actions did Parliament's first session enact after Mary was crowned, and why were they significant?

6. How did Jane Grey and her husband Guilford compose themselves at their execution, and why was it significant?

7. Why was the Protestant rebellion squelched by Mary, and what did it signify for her councilors?

8. Why did Thomas Wyatt and a group of men meet in November, 1554, and why was it significant?

9. How did the English people respond to Mary's marriage to Philip?

10. What was the purpose of the Counter-Reformation, and what did it do?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The Tower of London looms large in Weir's book, not only literally, in the sense of the many people sent there, but also figuratively, in the sense of what it represented in society. Choose three people who were sent to the Tower and discuss how it affected them.

Essay Topic 2

Choose three major acts and three major edicts from the book and discuss their intended purposes, as well as their actual outcomes.

Essay Topic 3

Throughout Weir's book, the English people's opinions of the various people, from King Edward to the Seymour brothers to Mary and Elizabeth, changed with the tides. Compare and contrast the public sphere's perception and reality about the goings on in the court by focusing on three major events from the book.

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