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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 14 A Court at Once Gay, Decadent, and Superb.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What right did the Queen have in regard to her ladies in waiting?
(a) She had the right to approve their marriages.
(b) She had the right to send them to France.
(c) She had the right to demand they dance.
(d) She had the right to execute them at will.

2. At what age was Mary Stewart widowed?
(a) Eighteen.
(b) Twenty-five.
(c) Fifteen.
(d) Thirty.

3. What was Elizabeth's first personal brush with death in her reign?
(a) She contracted smallpox and was in bed for six days.
(b) She got the stomach flu and was extremely dehydrated.
(c) She discovered an assassination plot.
(d) Robert Dudley contracted the black death.

4. Why was the Tudor court nomadic?
(a) The entourage was too big and expensive for one house to host them all.
(b) The Queen enjoyed traveling.
(c) It was not fashionable to stay in any one place for more than 48 hours.
(d) Subjects were in fierce competition to host the court.

5. Who took over the Scottish monarch?
(a) The infant King James IV.
(b) Catherine de' Medici.
(c) Mary, Queen of Scots.
(d) Elizabeth I.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which two members of Elizabeth's court fell into a power struggle?

2. To what did Mary Queen of Scots think she was entitled?

3. Why did Elizabeth remake Dudley into the Earl of Leicester?

4. Why did Elizabeth press Mary Queen of Scots to wed Leicester?

5. Why did the Queen need heirs?

(see the answer key)

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