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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. Out of Henry VII and Elizabeth's eight children, how many lived to adulthood?
(a) Three.
(b) Seven.
(c) Two.
(d) Five.

2. 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) An ape.
(d) A dog.

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

4. Who was significantly absent from Richard III's coronation ceremony?
(a) His mother, the Duchess of York.
(b) His brother Clarence.
(c) Henry Tudor.
(d) Elizabeth Wydville.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What made a marriage between Richard III and Elizabeth politically impossible?

2. To what does Weir attribute the fall of the House of York and the Plantagenet dynasty?

3. How does More claim the Princes were killed?

4. What basically defeated the rebellion?

5. What was rumored about Queen Anne's death?

Short Essay Questions

1. In regard to the case of the death of the Princes and Richard III, what does Weir argue when others claim Richard could not be convicted in a modern court of law?

2. What rumor persisted after Anne's death?

3. Why was Richard so unpopular in the South of England?

4. With the death of the Princes, who did many people turn to as the rightful Queen of England?

5. Why was Buckingham so suddenly alienated from Richard III?

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

7. How did many people view the death of Richard III's only son, the Prince of Wales?

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

9. Why did Sir James Tyrell, after surviving the change of monarchs and even faring well under Henry VII, choose to support the Earl of Lincoln's ambitions?

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

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