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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 22.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When a comet appears over London, what do many people believe it heralds?
(a) The death of some great person.
(b) The coming of great prosperity.
(c) The coming of the plague.
(d) The coming of war.

2. What kind of stockings does Mrs. Montagu give Queen Elizabeth in 1560?
(a) Knitted silk stockings.
(b) Worsted stockings.
(c) Wool stockings.
(d) Taffeta stockings.

3. How does Queen Elizabeth revive the Royal Navy?
(a) She increases sailors' wages and builds strong ships.
(b) She sends medicine to ailing sailors.
(c) She drafts more men into the Navy.
(d) She offers titles and lands for joining the Navy.

4. What disease does Queen Elizabeth contract and nearly die of?
(a) Smallpox.
(b) Pneumonia.
(c) Diptheria.
(d) Cancer.

5. Who wants to marry Don Carlos, a criminal lunatic, to gain an alliance with Spain to help dethrone Elizabeth?
(a) Mary Stuart.
(b) Lettice Devereux.
(c) Catherine Grey.
(d) Elizabeth.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is not a place where glass is used in England as peacetime prosperity develops an increasing market for it?

2. What are pearls said to symbolize?

3. What invasion is Mary Stuart anticipating at the beginning of Chapter 22?

4. How long has Queen Elizabeth ruled England at 37 years-old?

5. To whom does Lettice Devereux plot to marry her daughter?

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