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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was perhaps the most serious marriage consideration of Elizabeth's life?
(a) The Duke of Anjou.
(b) The Archduke Ferdinand.
(c) Phillip II.
(d) Henry III.

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

3. Who entered English territory on a sail to the Netherlands?
(a) Belgium.
(b) Ireland.
(c) France.
(d) Spain.

4. What did Elizabeth do for exercise?
(a) She took dancing lessons.
(b) She went hunting.
(c) She went to the castle gym.
(d) She went jogging.

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

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

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

8. Why, according to Elizabeth, was she unable to marry Anjou?
(a) She did not love him.
(b) She was jealous of his mistresses.
(c) She wanted the approval of her people.
(d) She was in love with Phillip of Spain.

9. What was the Queen's favorite household?
(a) Westminster Abbey.
(b) Nonsuch in Surrey.
(c) Whitehall.
(d) The Tower of London.

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

11. How many progresses did Elizabeth go on during her reign?
(a) Sixteen.
(b) Twenty-five.
(c) Five.
(d) One hundred.

12. How did the Duke of Norfolk die?
(a) He was beheaded.
(b) He was shot.
(c) He was hanged, drawn, and quartered.
(d) He was drowned.

13. Who was the leader of the pro-war anti-Spanish faction at court?
(a) Leicester.
(b) Cecil.
(c) Essex.
(d) Lopez.

14. Why weren't there many women at Elizabeth's court?
(a) She preferred to be the center of male attention.
(b) The men did not bring them because they wanted to marry Elizabeth.
(c) The female courtiers did not like her and refused to go.
(d) Most women died in childbirth.

15. What was the ceremony King's Evil?
(a) A ceremony where the monarch was carried across the threshold of each residence.
(b) A ceremony where commoners would be invited to the monarch's court for a day.
(c) A ceremony where the monarch laid their hands on the ill in hopes of curing them.
(d) A ceremony where the monarch was shuttered inside a church for cleansing.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened to those who had been knighted by Essex?

2. What title did Elizabeth create for William Cecil on February 25, 1571?

3. What was the English Enterprise?

4. How did Elizabeth take her meals?

5. Who led the expedition to aid Henry IV against the Catholic French and Spanish?

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