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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Elizabeth taken in May, 1554?

2. What does the Queen reiterate to Elizabeth in autumn, 1554?

3. As of September, 1554, what has Queen Mary not done for two months.

4. When does Queen Mary announce her pregnancy?

5. What does Mary do to those who plotted against her in 1553?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Lord Dudley sent to the Tower? What does this mean for Hannah?

2. Why does Hannah break her engagement to Daniel?

3. What does Hannah discover when she goes to visit her ill father in Spring and Summer 1554?

4. In Autumn and Winter 1553, what do Mary's advisors recommend that she do to secure her throne?

5. What news trickles in to Woodstock while Hannah is staying the winter there with Elizabeth?

6. What does Hannah have a vision of on the way to Mary's castle with Elizabeth?

7. Why is Hannah sent to the English court in the summer of 1548?

8. Under what circumstances do Hannah and her father move to England?

9. On her journey to Hunsdon, what does Hannah notice about the villages she passes through?

10. What did Mary's councillors want to do to Elizabeth following the uprising against Mary? Why does Elizabeth procrastinate in her return to London?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the real historical figures which Gregory depicts in the novel. Who are they? Does Gregory depict these figures accurately? Does she change any elements of their lives to further the plot?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the importance of Hannah's visions? How do they help her throughout the novel? How do they hurt her? What does she see in her visions? Do all of her visions happen later on in the novel?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss some of the major differences between life in the Tudor period and like in modern-day England. How might this story have been different if it were set in modern-day England?

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