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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. Who was Mary Queen of Scots' adviser?
(a) Norfolk.
(b) William Cecil.
(c) James Stuart, the Earl of Moray.
(d) Throckmorton.

2. Which two members of Elizabeth's court fell into a power struggle?
(a) Throckmorton and Norfolk.
(b) De Quadra and Ben Jonson.
(c) Shakespeare and Marley.
(d) William Cecil and Robert Dudley.

3. Whose marriage proposal did the Queen turn down because she wished to remain single?
(a) Robin Dudley.
(b) Philip of Spain.
(c) The Archduke Ferdinand.
(d) William Cecil.

4. 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.

5. In what year did Henry VIII die?
(a) 1647.
(b) 1447.
(c) 1547.
(d) 1747.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Edward VI perish in 1553?

2. Who was sent to negotiate the treaty with Scotland and France?

3. Of what new religious movement was Elizabeth I tolerant?

4. What was Elizabeth's nickname?

5. Why did Queen Elizabeth refuse de' Medici's match for her?

(see the answer key)

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