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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. How far below the surface was the chest found?
(a) 15 feet.
(b) 5 feet.
(c) 2 feet.
(d) 10 feet.
2. How old was he when Edward of Middleham, Richard III's son, died?
(a) Seventeen.
(b) Seven.
(c) Three.
(d) Thirteen.
3. Why was it dangerous for Henry VII that the bodies of the Princes were lost?
(a) With no bodies, there were pretenders to the throne.
(b) With no bodies, the children were probably in France.
(c) With no bodies, he was accused of murder.
(d) With no bodies, Richard III had the best claim to the throne.
4. Who, probably, was involved in the plot against Richard III?
(a) The Queen and her brothers.
(b) The northerners.
(c) The Lancastrians.
(d) The French.
5. What family was young Henry Tudor sent to live with in his formative years?
(a) The Earl of Pembroke.
(b) Jasper Tudor, staunchly Lancastrian.
(c) Lord Herbert, staunchly Yorkist.
(d) King Edward.
6. What plot was hatched in Sanctuary against Richard III?
(a) A plot to take Edward V's sisters overseas.
(b) A plot to rescue Edward and Richard.
(c) A plot to poison Richard III.
(d) A plot to marry Elizabeth Wydville to someone else.
7. What animal, found in an old underground pipe or tunnel, was briefly thought to be one of the Princes'?
(a) A lion.
(b) A horse.
(c) A dog.
(d) An ape.
8. Next to Buckingham, who was the most powerful subject in England?
(a) York.
(b) Suffolk.
(c) Brackenbury.
(d) Norfolk.
9. What was found behind a wall in a passageway of the King's Lodging n 1647?
(a) Katherine of Aragon's wardrobe.
(b) The skeletons of two small boys.
(c) Richard III's date book.
(d) The Princes, alive.
10. The conspiracy was evidence that, while the Princes lived, Richard III's reign would be what?
(a) Safe.
(b) Peaceful.
(c) Challenged.
(d) Short.
11. What did Richard III do to Margaret Beaufort?
(a) He married her and made her Queen.
(b) He executed her by drawing, hanging, and quartering.
(c) He made her title and lands forfeit to her husband.
(d) He sent her to Brittany to be with her son.
12. Why does Weir theorize that Richard III murdered the Princes?
(a) He never produced them again, even when it would have been politically advantageous.
(b) He hated children and disliked any in his court.
(c) Newly discovered forensic evidence proves his guilt beyond a doubt.
(d) He confessed in a letter to a bishop.
13. By conspiring to protect the Princes, what had the conspirators actually done?
(a) The conspirators had turned France against them.
(b) The conspirators had turned the world against Richard III.
(c) The conspirators had sealed the Princes' fate.
(d) The conspirators had set the stage to rescue them.
14. What hated system did Richard III abolish?
(a) Catholicism.
(b) Succession.
(c) Benevolences.
(d) Inheritance.
15. What outraged the chroniclers about the treatment of Richard III's corpse?
(a) It was displayed on Traitor's Gate.
(b) It was accorded all the honors due to a king.
(c) It was treated as the corpse of a felon.
(d) It was hidden away and not publicly buried.
Short Answer Questions
1. What writer besides More was responsible for Richard III's widespread evil reputation?
2. Weir dismisses the argument that Warback was part of what family?
3. What was discovered about Richard III's character after the usurpation?
4. Recorded by Thomas More, who confessed to killing the Princes?
5. Buckingham decided to rebel against the king after a conversation with whom?
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