This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 9 and 10 A Matter Dangerous to the Common Amity and Things Grivouser and Worse.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did the Queen publicly humiliate Robert Dudley?
(a) She refused to dance with him at the next party.
(b) She called him names and bade him leave.
(c) She sent him to the gallows.
(d) She destroyed his Letters Patent.

2. What reason did the Queen give in her refusal of Erik of Sweden?
(a) She was disinclined to marry, especially someone who would be absent from the country.
(b) She had only weeks to live because of illness.
(c) She promised herself to Robert Dudley.
(d) She was offended that he did not speak English.

3. Why did Elizabeth press Mary Queen of Scots to wed Leicester?
(a) She wanted to discourage Mary's other Catholic suitors.
(b) She wanted Erik of Sweden to be jealous.
(c) She wanted Mary Queen of Scots to come and live in England with her.
(d) She wanted to get Leicester out of the court.

4. Why did Edward VI perish in 1553?
(a) He contracted tuberculosis.
(b) He suffered from the bubonic plague.
(c) He drowned at sea.
(d) He was in a carriage accident.

5. To what did Mary Queen of Scots think she was entitled?
(a) She believed she owned Ireland.
(b) She believed she was the rightful Queen of England.
(c) She believed she was entitled to the estates of Spain.
(d) She believed she was the rightful heir of Sweden.