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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. Weir dismisses the argument that Warback was part of what family?
(a) The Plantagenets.
(b) The Tudors.
(c) The Yorkists.
(d) The Lancasters.

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

3. What King ordered work on the White Tower and, as a result, may have found the Princes?
(a) King Henry VIII.
(b) King George I.
(c) Oliver Cromwell.
(d) King Charles II.

4. What plot was hatched in Sanctuary against Richard III?
(a) A plot to rescue Edward and Richard.
(b) A plot to take Edward V's sisters overseas.
(c) A plot to poison Richard III.
(d) A plot to marry Elizabeth Wydville to someone else.

5. What war did the murder of the Princes cause?
(a) A religious crusade to the Holy Land.
(b) Civil War in England.
(c) War with France.
(d) An outbreak of the War of the Roses.

Short Answer Questions

1. What information could not be determined at the time from the bones?

2. In the absence of Henry Tudor, who did Elizabeth Wydville think for her daughter to marry?

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

4. What basically defeated the rebellion?

5. Why was it dangerous for Henry VII that the bodies of the Princes were lost?

Short Essay Questions

1. Richard III was a violent, duplicitous, and demanding man--how can Weir claim he possessed real spiritual piety?

2. What was probably the tipping point for Buckingham's treason?

3. What rumor persisted after Anne's death?

4. What factors kept Richard III from marrying his niece?

5. Why would Richard III have considered marrying his eighteen-year-old niece Elizabeth of York?

6. After their marriage, what children of Elizabeth of York and Henry VII lived to adulthood?

7. What happened when Richard III sent orders to Brackenbury to kill the Princes?

8. How, probably, were the Princes murdered?

9. How did Richard III discover Sir James Tyrell's longing for advancement at any cost?

10. Why, claims Weir, was Tyrell's confession of the murder of the Princes significant?

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