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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why was Hastings executed so swiftly after Gloucester's accusation?
(a) He knew too much about Gloucester's plot to usurp the throne.
(b) The Queen insisted his execution be expedited.
(c) It was the law that the accused be executed quickly.
(d) He angered his attendants and they could not wait to put him to death.

2. Why did Lord Howard support Gloucester?
(a) He was a timid man and was afraid of opposing Gloucester.
(b) He disliked Edward V and the Queen.
(c) He wanted control of the Admiral's fleet.
(d) He wanted Gloucester to restore his lost inheritance.

3. Why were all of Gloucester's actions illegal?
(a) He had not gotten Edward IV's permission.
(b) He had not married the Queen.
(c) He had no official authority as Lord Protector from the council.
(d) He had not gotten Edward V's signature.

4. What news did Gloucester give the young King that shocked him?
(a) Gloucester told Edward V that his mother died.
(b) Gloucester told Edward V that he was the rightful King.
(c) Gloucester told Edward V that his councillors were conspiring to kill him.
(d) Gloucester told Edward V that France had invaded England.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What charge did Warwick and Clarence try to level against Edward IV?

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

3. When Gloucester and Buckingham arrived at Northampton, where was the King?

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

5. How did Hastings react when Richard confided his plans to him?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Gloucester convince Edward V to go with him and Buckingham?

2. By the time he reached forty, what could be said of Edward IV's lifestyle?

3. What advantages did Richard gain by marrying Anne of Neville?

4. How did Gloucester lull Rivers into a false sense of security?

5. How did Edward IV shock the world with his marriage?

6. What was amazing about Gloucester and Buckingham's coup?

7. When Hastings learned of Gloucester's plot to take the throne, what did he do?

8. How was Richard III formally asked to become King?

9. Why was the succession to the English throne unstable in the fifteenth century after Edward III's death?

10. How did Gloucester eventually neutralize Hastings?

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