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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What family inherited the throne after Elizabeth I's death in 1603?
(a) The Yorks.
(b) The Windsors.
(c) The Stuarts.
(d) The Plantagenets.

2. What is Weir's conclusion as to who murdered the Princes?
(a) She concludes they fell ill and died.
(b) She concludes they were murdered by Richard III.
(c) She concludes they were not murdered, but taken to a safe haven.
(d) She concludes they fled to Henry Tudor.

3. What information could not be determined at the time from the bones?
(a) The bones' age.
(b) The gender.
(c) The age of the skeletons when they died.
(d) Any familial relation.

4. Despite all his outward displays of confidence, Richard III knew his position to be what?
(a) Treasonous.
(b) Insecure.
(c) Eternal.
(d) Impregnable.

5. Where did Jasper and Henry Tudor flee after Edward IV ascended to the throne?
(a) Normandy.
(b) Brittany.
(c) Portugal.
(d) Wales.

6. What made a marriage between Richard III and Elizabeth politically impossible?
(a) The rumors of Anne's dishonorable death.
(b) The incestuous nature of their relationship.
(c) Richard's illness and melancholy.
(d) Elizabeth's inability to bear children.

7. What rival factions would be united if Elizabeth and Henry Tudor married?
(a) The House of York and the House of Plantagenet.
(b) The House of York and the House of Lancaster.
(c) The House of Plantagenet and the House of Lancaster.
(d) The House of Windsor and the House of Stuart.

8. In what year did Tyrell betray Henry VII?
(a) 1499.
(b) 1503.
(c) 1510.
(d) 1501.

9. Which of the Princes was most often impersonated?
(a) The Earl of Warwick.
(b) Edward of Middleham.
(c) Edward V.
(d) Richard, Duke of York.

10. Next to Buckingham, who was the most powerful subject in England?
(a) Brackenbury.
(b) Suffolk.
(c) Norfolk.
(d) York.

11. Who did Perkin Warbeck pretend to be?
(a) Edward V.
(b) Richard, Duke of York.
(c) Richard Plantagenet.
(d) Henry, Duke of York.

12. What animal, found in an old underground pipe or tunnel, was briefly thought to be one of the Princes'?
(a) A dog.
(b) An ape.
(c) A horse.
(d) A lion.

13. On what date did the Battle of Bosworth take place?
(a) July 3rd.
(b) August 22nd.
(c) June 13.
(d) June 19.

14. Who, probably, was involved in the plot against Richard III?
(a) The northerners.
(b) The Lancastrians.
(c) The Queen and her brothers.
(d) The French.

15. Upon the death of the Princes, who in England had the best claim to the throne?
(a) The Duke of Buckingham.
(b) Jasper Tudor.
(c) Elizabeth of York.
(d) Richard Plantagenet.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was found behind a wall in a passageway of the King's Lodging n 1647?

2. What war did the murder of the Princes cause?

3. Who did Henry Tudor promise to marry on Christmas Day in 1483?

4. What writer besides More was responsible for Richard III's widespread evil reputation?

5. Who was Margaret Beaufort?

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