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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who became Elizabeth's new Master of Horse and favorite?
(a) Southampton.
(b) Walsingham.
(c) Sir Walter Raleigh.
(d) Essex, Leicester's stepson.

3. Who was sent as Essex's replacement in Ireland?
(a) Mountjoy.
(b) Raleigh.
(c) Sussex.
(d) Cecil.

4. What rumor persisted about Essex's secret meeting with Tyrone?
(a) Essex asked Tyrone to let him win.
(b) Essex asked Tyrone for his sister's hand in marriage.
(c) Essex asked Tyrone to help him overthrow Elizabeth.
(d) Essex and Tyrone were involve in an illicit relationship.

5. Who did Elizabeth appoint as her secretary?
(a) Essex.
(b) Robert Cecil.
(c) Robert Dudley.
(d) Burghley.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Why did the Queen have difficulty understanding when her ladies wanted to marry?

4. To whom did Mary Queen of Scots bequeath her claim to the English throne after her death?

5. How did the Duke of Norfolk die?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the English Enterprise?

2. What was the most serious courtship of Elizabeth's reign?

3. What was courtly love?

4. What did Burghley's death symbolize?

5. What were the results of Essex's Ireland campaign?

6. Who started the youth movement in England and why?

7. What major changes were taking place in Elizabeth's court?

8. Why may Leicester have married Lettice Knollys?

9. How was Elizabeth's health throughout her reign?

10. Why was Norfolk's sentence commuted to beheading instead of being hanged, drawn, and quartered?

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