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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Sun Setteth at Last.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How was Essex executed?
(a) He was drowned.
(b) He was drawn and quartered.
(c) He was hanged.
(d) He was beheaded.

2. What did Elizabeth do whenever people thought she was ill?
(a) She would shut herself in her chamber.
(b) She would demand a written correction of the rumor.
(c) She would make a public display of her health.
(d) She would throw fits in her council meetings.

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

4. How did Elizabeth punish her Catholic subjects for failing to attend Anglican church?
(a) She executed them.
(b) She issued them fines.
(c) She excommunicated them.
(d) She exiled them.

5. Why did Anjou return to wooing Elizabeth?
(a) He was in love with her and could not live without her.
(b) His only wish was to be King of England.
(c) His father insisted he marry her.
(d) He needed her money for a campaign in the Netherlands.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why may Cecil have killed Amy Dudley?

2. What did Elizabeth think was an essential part of a stable state?

3. When was Elizabeth officially excommunicated from the Catholic Church?

4. What was the nickname of Mary I?

5. What was the name of Leicester's illegitimate son?

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