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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the Earl of Leicester tell the French ambassador that Queen Elizabeth said about marriage when she was eight years-old?
(a) That she would marry six times like her father.
(b) That she wanted to marry Leicester.
(c) That she could not wait to marry.
(d) That she would never marry.

2. What Catholic does William Cecil think will ascend to the throne and revive Catholicism in England if the Protestant Queen Elizabeth dies without a child?
(a) Mary Tudor.
(b) Edward Courtenay.
(c) The Duke of Norfolk.
(d) Prince Philip of Spain.

3. What is King Henry VIII's relationship to Lady Jane Grey?
(a) He is her grandfather.
(b) He is her father.
(c) He is her uncle.
(d) He is her great uncle.

4. According to the introduction, on what does the book focus?
(a) Life in England during Elizabeth's reign.
(b) Queen Elizabeth I.
(c) The Protestant Reformation.
(d) The Spanish Armada.

5. What married man does Mary Stuart take as her lover in Chapter 11?
(a) Lord Bothwell.
(b) King Philip of Spain.
(c) Lord Lennox.
(d) The Earl of Leicester.

Short Answer Questions

1. What disease does Queen Elizabeth contract and nearly die of?

2. Which of the following actions does not occur in response to what Queen Elizabeth does with the cargo of the four Spanish ships?

3. In Chapter 2 of <i>Elizabeth the Great</i>, who is caught with the teenage Princess Elizabeth in his arms and eventually taken to the Tower and executed for planning to marry her without the king's Privy Council?

4. Who tries to seize Princess Mary and Princess Elizabeth after King Edward's death, proclaiming Lady Jane Grey as queen of England in place of Henry VIII's daughters?

5. What does the author say the aim of the book is in the introduction?

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