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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do the facts stack up against Richard and Henry?
(a) They both have equal reasons to do the boys in
(b) Richard has six reasons not to kill the boys, Henry has five reasons to kill them
(c) Richard has five reasons not to kill the boys, Henry has six reasons to kill them
(d) Richard has seven reasons to kill the boys, Henry has four reasons not to

2. What is wrong with this theory?
(a) Henry thought he had enough against Richard
(b) Henry was not of the Plantagenet family line; he was Tudor
(c) Henry himself had the princes killed
(d) Henry bore no love for Richards family

3. What did Henry have to do in order to feel all right about murdering someone, in Carradines' words?
(a) Justify it to his priest
(b) Dress it up in legal ribbons
(c) Justify it in the eyes of God
(d) File papers

4. When did the younger boy join his brother?
(a) June 16th
(b) May 12th
(c) June 18th
(d) May 14th

5. Who was the Bishop?
(a) Privy Seal
(b) Lord Chancellor and Privy Seal
(c) A priest of the catholic church
(d) Lord Chancellor

6. What was the gist of the rumor issued by France?
(a) That the French were better than the British
(b) That the French were being drafted
(c) That the French would not fight the British
(d) That the boys had been massacred

7. What did Grant do in order to keep himself from arguing a biased side in Richard's favor?
(a) He became the prosecutor
(b) He found reasons to dislike Richard
(c) He refused to study his doings any more
(d) He put the book down and talked to more people who didn't like him

8. Who has more motive to kill the boys now?
(a) Warwick
(b) Richard
(c) Grant
(d) Henry

9. How long after the proclamation was issued was Lord Hastings beheaded?
(a) Seventy-two hours
(b) Twenty-four hours
(c) One month
(d) One week

10. What does Carradine want to do?
(a) Go to the press and demand they help him clear Richard the III in history books
(b) Drop the research permanently on the peasants and win the respect of his peers
(c) Write a book about his findings about Richard the III
(d) Drop the research on Richard and go back to the peasants

11. What is the major problem with the tale of the martyrs?
(a) Those women never existed
(b) The woman lived for another forty years after this incident
(c) Many denied it happening, and even twenty years later no eyewitnesses at all
(d) Those women were killed for treason

12. What did Carradine find out about the heirs to Richard's throne?
(a) They were all happy and glad for Henry's takeover
(b) They were all part and party to Richard's downfall
(c) They all died during Henry VII's reign
(d) They all outlived him and were well cared for

13. What were the names of the two boy princes?
(a) Edward and Richard
(b) Richard and Henry
(c) Richard and William
(d) Edward and Henry

14. What is the difference between the way Richard and Henry view the boys?
(a) Richard would most likely have loved the boys, Henry had no such feelings of kinship to them
(b) Richard views them as sheep to be slaughtered, Henry sees them as valuable members of the community
(c) Richard views them as his kin, his beloved brothers children, Henry sees them as stumbling blocks and obstacles to keeping his power
(d) Richard views them as stumbling blocks to his power, and Henry sees them as kin

15. What did Henry do to Elizabeth Woodville?
(a) Stripped her of her title/inheritance, and sent her off to France
(b) Stripped her of her title/inheritance and shut her in a convent
(c) Humiliated her
(d) Stripped her of her clothes and title and shut her up in France

Short Answer Questions

1. Who appears to be at the heart of every issue?

2. What are the vast majority of gravestones and monuments in Scotland of people executed for religious beliefs?

3. What happened to Dighton (one of the two conspirators in the boy princes' deaths)?

4. What is Alan reminded of after he receives the message from Carradine?

5. How many conspirators were there in the plot to kill King Richard?

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