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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 19, 20, and 21 Between Scylla and Charbdis, Practices at Home and Abroad, and The Tragical Execution.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How was Lady Jane Grey related to Elizabeth?
(a) She was her aunt.
(b) She was her cousin.
(c) She was her sister.
(d) She was her mother.

2. Who wrote The Fairie Queen?
(a) Ben Jonson.
(b) Shakespeare.
(c) Edmund Spenser.
(d) Walt Whitman.

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

4. Who did Cecil, Norfolk, and Sussex want the Queen to marry?
(a) The Earl of Leicester.
(b) Charles IX.
(c) Lord Darnley.
(d) Maximilian II.

5. What Papal Bull did Gregory XIII reissue?
(a) The Papal Bull excommunicating Phillip II.
(b) The Papal Bull excommunicating Elizabeth.
(c) The Papal Bull excommunicating Ireland.
(d) The Papal Bull excommunicating Montezuma.

Short Answer Questions

1. With whom may Elizabeth I have been in love?

2. To whom did Elizabeth claim she was married?

3. Who did Leicester secretly marry so he could have a legitimate heir?

4. What country asked Elizabeth to become its Queen?

5. What religion did Elizabeth I practice?

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