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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who did Richard III decide to entrust with murdering the Princes?
(a) Sir James Tyrell.
(b) John Green.
(c) William Slaughter.
(d) John Morton.

2. What did the general public think of the potential match between Richard III and the Lady Elizabeth?
(a) They found it exciting.
(b) They found it incestuous.
(c) They found it inspiring.
(d) They found it treasonous.

3. At the time, what was needed for an uncle and a niece to marry?
(a) A public ceremony.
(b) A parent's permission.
(c) A DNA test.
(d) A dispensation from the church.

4. With whom may Richard III have had an affair during his wife's illness?
(a) Margaret Beaufort.
(b) Elizabeth Wydville.
(c) Elizabeth of York.
(d) Elizabeth Shore.

5. What family was young Henry Tudor sent to live with in his formative years?
(a) Jasper Tudor, staunchly Lancastrian.
(b) King Edward.
(c) Lord Herbert, staunchly Yorkist.
(d) The Earl of Pembroke.

6. In what language were most of Richard III's devotional books?
(a) French.
(b) Latin.
(c) English.
(d) Welsh.

7. How many years of Plantagenet rule came to an end after the death of Richard III?
(a) 331.
(b) 500.
(c) 445.
(d) 205.

8. Whose account is the earliest evidence of rumors that the Princes were dead?
(a) The Croyland Chronicle.
(b) Sir Thomas More.
(c) The Buckingham Pages.
(d) Dominic Mancini.

9. How long after Henry VII and Elizabeth's official marriage was their first child born?
(a) Nine months.
(b) Eight months.
(c) Two months.
(d) Six months.

10. By conspiring to protect the Princes, what had the conspirators actually done?
(a) The conspirators had turned the world against Richard III.
(b) The conspirators had turned France against them.
(c) The conspirators had sealed the Princes' fate.
(d) The conspirators had set the stage to rescue them.

11. How far below the surface was the chest found?
(a) 2 feet.
(b) 15 feet.
(c) 10 feet.
(d) 5 feet.

12. Who did Henry Tudor promise to marry on Christmas Day in 1483?
(a) Katherine of Aragon.
(b) Eleanor of Brittany.
(c) Elizabeth of York.
(d) Juana of Portugal.

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

14. To what does Weir attribute the fall of the House of York and the Plantagenet dynasty?
(a) Richard III's ambition and murder of the Princes.
(b) Elizabeth Wydville's treachery.
(c) Buckingham's betrayal.
(d) Henry Tudor's claim to the throne.

15. Who did Richard III appoint Constable of the Tower?
(a) Sir John Dudley.
(b) Sir Robert Brackenbury.
(c) William Slaughter.
(d) Buckingham.

Short Answer Questions

1. What hated system did Richard III abolish?

2. What outraged the chroniclers about the treatment of Richard III's corpse?

3. When did Henry officially date the beginning of his reign?

4. How does More claim the Princes were killed?

5. What was discovered about Richard III's character after the usurpation?

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