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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 7-8, An Innocent Lamb in the Hands of Wolves, The Lord Protector.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the debate about the government during the King's minority?
(a) Whether or not to let the Queen govern as regent.
(b) Whether or not to give Lord Hastings the position of Lord Protector.
(c) Whether or not to give Gloucester sovereign power.
(d) Whether or not to crown the Prince of Wales.

2. What were Gloucester and Buckingham planning?
(a) A war with France.
(b) A war with Scotland.
(c) A coronation party for King Edward V.
(d) A coup.

3. Why did Edward IV and Clarence quarrel over Warwick's estates?
(a) Clarence was not given all the estates like he wanted.
(b) Edward IV gave the estates back to Warwick.
(c) Clarence did not think Warwick's estates should have been taken.
(d) Edward IV was not allowed to keep the estates.

4. How did contemporary magnates feel about the Wydvilles?
(a) They supported the faction, which was very popular.
(b) They had no feeling one way or another.
(c) They disliked the faction, thinking them common.
(d) No one knew the Wydvilles at court.

5. From whom was Henry Stafford, second Duke of Buckingham, descended?
(a) Edward III.
(b) Richard I.
(c) Henry VIII.
(d) William the Conqueror.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Gloucester prefer to promote Buckingham instead of Hastings?

2. What is the difference between Gloucester's Protectorship and Duke Humphrey's?

3. What is Weir's theory about Richard's alleged physical deformity?

4. Who was made Governor to the Prince of Wales?

5. In 1453, King Henry VI suffered what kind of mental illness?

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