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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. Before she allowed her daughters to leave sanctuary, what did Elizabeth Wydville ask Richard III to do?
(a) She asked him to swear a public oath to keep them safe.
(b) She asked him to make Henry Tudor his heir.
(c) She asked him to marry her and make her Queen again.
(d) She asked him to return her lands and title.

2. On what date did the Battle of Bosworth take place?
(a) June 19.
(b) June 13.
(c) July 3rd.
(d) August 22nd.

3. What made a marriage between Richard III and Elizabeth politically impossible?
(a) The incestuous nature of their relationship.
(b) Richard's illness and melancholy.
(c) Elizabeth's inability to bear children.
(d) The rumors of Anne's dishonorable death.

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

5. Why may Richard III have been hesitant to name Warwick his successor?
(a) The boy was a Lancastrian.
(b) The boy had a club foot.
(c) The boy may have been intellectually slow or mentally retarded.
(d) The boy had strong Wydville ties.

Short Answer Questions

1. By conspiring to protect the Princes, what had the conspirators actually done?

2. Which of the Princes was most often impersonated?

3. Recorded by Thomas More, who confessed to killing the Princes?

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

5. Where did Jasper and Henry Tudor flee after Edward IV ascended to the throne?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. 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?

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

5. What unexpected clue turned up during Charles II's renovation of the White Tower?

6. What conspiracy did Richard III discover involving Elizabeth Wydville and other members of her faction?

7. After what event were the Princes in the Tower never again seen alive?

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

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

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

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