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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 9-10, The Fall of Hastings, This Act of Usurpation.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What court faction was Clarence staunchly opposed to?
(a) The Wydvilles.
(b) The French.
(c) The Yorkists.
(d) The Welsh.

2. Of what did Gloucester and Buckingham accuse Lord Rivers?
(a) They accused him of staging a coup.
(b) They accused him of removing the King from Gloucester's guardianship.
(c) They accused him of murdering the Queen.
(d) They accused him of high treason.

3. How did Richard increase his power on the council?
(a) He sent them all to war in France.
(b) He turned other council members against each other.
(c) He killed the Queen and her daughters.
(d) He threatened to confiscate everyone's property.

4. Where in the Tower of London were the Princes probably kept?
(a) Raleigh's Walk.
(b) The White Tower.
(c) The Bloody Tower.
(d) The Garden Tower.

5. Where did Gloucester send Rivers, Grey, and Vaughn?
(a) He sent them to strongholds in the north.
(b) He sent them to Wales.
(c) He sent them to the Tower of London.
(d) He sent them to France to fight.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Lord Howard support Gloucester?

2. How did King Edward IV stun the world with his marriage?

3. Why were all of Gloucester's actions illegal?

4. How many of the great English aristocratic families became extinct because of the War of the Roses?

5. Where was King Edward V to reside before his coronation?

(see the answer key)

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