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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. How did Mary respond to Charles V putting his son Prince Philip as a candidate for marriage?

2. According to Weir, why did the new head of the Church of Rome, Paul IV, put a strain on the relationship between England and Rome?

3. What did the act Parliament ratified to eradicate heresy from England give bishops the power to do?

4. What did Queen Mary want Elizabeth to do?

5. How did the English people feel toward Philip of Spain once he was married to the queen?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Elizabeth respond to being recalled to Whitehall by her sister, and why is it significant?

2. What choice did Mary make after Philip was excommunicated?

3. What was Philip's state of mind at Hampton Court regarding Mary not giving birth, and why did he leave?

4. Why was Mary reluctant to execute Jane Grey, and what was the council's response?

5. What was the atmosphere at Hampton court when Mary and Philip arrived to await the birth of their first child?

6. Why did Parliament repeal the Act of Supremacy, passed under Henry VIII, and who returned to England following its repeal?

7. What was the purpose of the Counter-Reformation, and what did it do?

8. Why did Mary retract Jane Grey's privileges at the Tower, and under what condition did she offer her a reprieve?

9. What was Mary's state of mind at the end of her life?

10. Why were the councilors undecided about what they should do with Elizabeth, and what choice did they eventually make?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

As siblings, Edward, Elizabeth, and Mary shared the same father but had little else in common. Discuss Edward's, Elizabeth's, and Mary's lives as siblings. What were the similarities and differences between them as people and as royals?

Essay Topic 2

The Tower of London looms large in Weir's book, not only literally, in the sense of the many people sent there, but also figuratively, in the sense of what it represented in society. Choose three people who were sent to the Tower and discuss how it affected them.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the rise and fall of the Seymour brothers.

1. Who were they?

2. What relationship did they have with one another?

3. What was their reputation in and out of the court?

4. What caused their downfall?

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