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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 the monarch was shuttered inside a church for cleansing.
(c) A ceremony where commoners would be invited to the monarch's court for a day.
(d) A ceremony where the monarch laid their hands on the ill in hopes of curing them.

2. Who stage managed Elizabeth's famous speech to the troops?
(a) Essex.
(b) Leicester.
(c) Burghley.
(d) Worcester.

3. How did Elizabeth keep up her image as she aged?
(a) She took up a weekly skin care regiment.
(b) She wore elaborate costumes and makeup.
(c) She retired from public life and commissioned portraits.
(d) She hired young look-alikes to go into public.

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

5. What were the dual reasons for Elizabeth to live in such a large image?
(a) She was competing with Mary Queen of Scots.
(b) She was desperately trying to secure a marriage.
(c) She was afraid of being forgotten.
(d) She was stroking her ego and keeping up appearances for her people.

6. How was Essex perceived by the English public?
(a) He was very popular.
(b) He was a virtual unknown.
(c) He was very unpopular.
(d) He was a villain.

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

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

9. In her portraits, Elizabeth wanted the myth of the Virgin Queen to take precedence over what?
(a) Realism.
(b) Impressionism.
(c) Color.
(d) Abstracts.

10. What was courtly love?
(a) It was when members of the court wrote poetry.
(b) It was when a male lover paid homage to an unattainable mistress.
(c) It was when two lovers were discovered by a member of court.
(d) It was when members of the court married.

11. Where did Elizabeth deliver her famous speech to the troops?
(a) Tilbury.
(b) London.
(c) Whitehall.
(d) Galway.

12. Who was Roberto Ridolfi?
(a) He was Catherine de'Medici's ambassador.
(b) He was a papal agent who wanted Mary Queen of Scots on the English throne.
(c) He was almost assuredly Elizabeth's lover.
(d) He was Norfolk's secretary.

13. Why, despite Elizabeth's competency, was England still suspicious of a female monarch?
(a) They did not like Mary Queen of Scots.
(b) They remembered the disaster that was Mary Tudor's reign.
(c) They were afraid of Elizabeth's power.
(d) They knew Catherine de' Medici and did not like her.

14. How did Elizabeth prefer to solve her problems?
(a) She preferred to use diplomacy.
(b) She preferred to wage war.
(c) She preferred to use execution.
(d) She preferred to leave problems to the council.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How was the feel of Elizabeth's court described?

2. Besides the Queen, who was the most powerful person in the court?

3. How was Essex executed?

4. Of what religious persuasion was Henry III?

5. Why was the Tudor court nomadic?

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