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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 is the difference between Gloucester's Protectorship and Duke Humphrey's?
(a) Humphrey had sovereign power and Gloucester was a figurehead.
(b) Humphrey staged a coup and Gloucester was loyal to the king.
(c) Humphrey had control of the military and Gloucester did not.
(d) Humphrey was a figurehead and Gloucester had sovereign power.

2. What was the document that formally presented Gloucester's claim to the throne?
(a) The King's Claim.
(b) Renia Suprema.
(c) Titulus Regius.
(d) The Act of Attainder.

3. When they spoke to King Edward V, who did Gloucester and Buckingham blame for Edward IV's death?
(a) They blamed the northerners.
(b) They blamed Parliament.
(c) They blamed his ministers.
(d) They blamed the French.

4. In what year was Richard of Gloucester born?
(a) 1452.
(b) 1462.
(c) 1554.
(d) 1443.

5. What two groups did Edward IV fail to unify before his death?
(a) The Welsh and the French.
(b) Richard and the Wydvilles.
(c) The Yorkists and the Tudors.
(d) Clarence and Richard.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who did Richard marry?

2. In what part of England were the Wydvilles in control?

3. How was Richard of Gloucester related to King Edward IV?

4. Why did the Queen Dowager's continued stay in sanctuary embarrass Richard?

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

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