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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who advises James not to invade England?
(a) Margaret and Mary.
(b) Margaret and Henry.
(c) Margaret and Janet Kennedy.
(d) Margaret and the Scottish minister.

2. Where does Lady Heron live?
(a) Ford Castle.
(b) Windsor Castle.
(c) London.
(d) A random house along the road.

3. Who is Anne?
(a) Albany's twin sister who strangely looks just like him.
(b) Albany's favorite hourse.
(c) Margaret's third daughter.
(d) Albany's wife.

4. How does Henry become King of England?
(a) He stages a rebellion.
(b) He overthrows the current king.
(c) He marries a princess.
(d) Margaret's father dies.

5. What country does Henry invade shortly after the second baby James is born?
(a) Spain.
(b) Scotland.
(c) France.
(d) England.

6. Why is Angus's family eager for him to become involved with Margaret?
(a) This is a trick question; the reader never learns how Angus's family feels.
(b) Because they like Margaret.
(c) Because of the benefits it will bring the family.
(d) Because they want to overthrow Margaret.

7. What does Margaret say is the main thing influencing her desire to have James stop with his affairs?
(a) The horrible gossip she has to endure.
(b) Her pride.
(c) How expensive it is to feed all these people in the castle.
(d) Her desire for revenge.

8. Who is Janet Kennedy when she is first introduced in the text?
(a) James's mistress.
(b) Henry's mistress.
(c) Margaret's best friend.
(d) The future queen.

9. What is the one thing that Margaret can give James that his lovers cannot?
(a) Money.
(b) A legitimate heir.
(c) The crown.
(d) True love.

10. Who is the child Margaret encounters one day in the castle shortly after she marries James?
(a) Her sister.
(b) His daughter with another woman.
(c) Her niece.
(d) A ghost.

11. How old is Henry when the novel opens?
(a) 6.
(b) 10.
(c) 8.
(d) 12.

12. How does Margaret first react to James's infidelity?
(a) She is angry but continues to be seduced by him.
(b) She leaves to return home to England.
(c) She doesn't talk to him for a year.
(d) She doesn't care as long as she stays queen.

13. After her second child is born, how does Margaret feel about her future childbearing possibilities?
(a) That she will someday have healthy children.
(b) That they are hopeless.
(c) That she needs a new husband.
(d) That she better adopt if she is ever going to have children.

14. Why does Bell-the-Cat die?
(a) He kills himself.
(b) From grief over losing loved ones.
(c) He is poisoned.
(d) James kills him.

15. Why does Margaret lie in her letter to Henry, saying the birth of her next child is imminent?
(a) Because she knows her letters are being intercepted.
(b) All of these answers are correct.
(c) Because she wants to mislead him.
(d) Because she has become delusional.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is the birth of Margaret's second child a bit disappointing?

2. Who is John Stuart?

3. How much say does Margaret want in the politics and policies of Scotland that James deals with?

4. How does Angus respond when Margaret tries to seduce him for the first time?

5. How old is Margaret when she first becomes pregnant?

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