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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Amy Dudley is found at the bottom of a staircase with a broken neck, who is immediately suspected of murdering her?
(a) Sir Christopher Hammond.
(b) Her husband, Lord Robert Dudley.
(c) William Cecil.
(d) Mary Stuart.

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

3. What powerful country supports the marriage of Mary Stuart to Darnley?
(a) Spain.
(b) Scotland.
(c) England.
(d) France.

4. What religion does Catherine Parr encourage Princess Elizabeth and Prince Edward to study?
(a) Catholicism.
(b) The Reformed Church.
(c) Islam.
(d) Judaism.

5. Which of the following statements does not describe the effect the book's focus has on the book's shape?
(a) The shape of the book is very irregular.
(b) Some minor events are relayed in great detail.
(c) Some important events get a very brief mention.
(d) The book is arranged in chronological order.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who shows over familiarity with the queen by taking her napkin out of her hand to wipe his sweaty face during a tennis game?

2. Where does Queen Elizabeth send Mary Stuart to at the end of Chapter 11?

3. Who ends up in the Tower instead of the princesses because of the attempt to put Lady Jane Grey on the throne?

4. What happens to bring Princess Elizabeth to the English throne in place of Mary, her sister?

5. Although Elizabeth and her Master of the Horse have known each other since Elizabeth was eight, when does their relationship become closer before her ascension to the throne?

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