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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What information does the his new visitor give him about Richard III?
(a) That his mother was two years in conceiving him
(b) That he murdered his mother
(c) He was a benevolent benefactor to the church
(d) He had thirteen mistresses

2. Who is the second visitor?
(a) Miss Tucker
(b) Mr. Osbuld
(c) Mrs. Tinker
(d) Mrs. Tracker

3. Who does his visitor recommend as a leading historian of Richard III's time?
(a) Sir Wallace
(b) Sir Cuthbert
(c) Sir William
(d) Sir Jericho

4. What did the author of The Rose of Raby hint at the end?
(a) The marriage to a prominent lord from Elizabeth's eventual daughter
(b) The end of the grandmother's life
(c) Elizabeth's coronation as queen and her brother's death
(d) Richard's guilt

5. What was it that he felt Old England had going for it?
(a) That the church was always behind the scenes
(b) That they frequently went to war
(c) That there was a great social network
(d) That kings came and kings went

6. Who does Mrs. Tinker blame for the deaths of the Princes?
(a) Richard the Third
(b) Tyrrel
(c) Edward the IV
(d) Frances

7. How did Edward run England?
(a) Distractedly and as though he was always somewhere else
(b) With a despotic power and light hand
(c) Competently and forthright
(d) With a regrettable forgetfulness and irresponsibility

8. Who was Grant chasing?
(a) Johnny
(b) Barry
(c) Jenny
(d) Benny

9. What turns out to be a myth of Richard the Third?
(a) The account of Sir Thomas More
(b) His pets being heirs to the family fortunes
(c) Both his hunchback and deformed hand
(d) The murder of his nephews

10. How did the Amazon react to Grant's ferocity?
(a) Totally ashamed of her opinion on More
(b) Completely hurt
(c) As though she might rip his head off
(d) As though she might cry

11. How was Richard described?
(a) He looked like an 'illegitimate child' and a 'stranger in the home'
(b) As someone who 'looked like a visitor' and the 'changeling'
(c) As someone who 'looked like a social outcast' and local 'character'
(d) Eyes too close together, he was 'shifty' and had an 'irrepressible influence'

12. Whose account of history does the Amazon take her information from?
(a) Her history professor at school
(b) Sir Thomas More's History of Time
(c) Funk and Wagnells Encyclopedia
(d) Sir James Tyres Time That's Passed

13. What did he suggest was the motive of Richard III to kill the boys?
(a) Hatred of himself
(b) Hatred of children
(c) Envy of his older brother
(d) Hatred of their mother

14. How many of the Woodvilles were married into prominence?
(a) Four
(b) Eight
(c) Seven
(d) Three

15. What color was one of the objects brought?
(a) Sky blue
(b) Sunset pink
(c) Ruby red
(d) Sage green

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the person in the picture Grant describes as a monster of nursery stories?

2. What was the only thing Mrs. Tinker read in the newspapers?

3. How did Thomas portray Richard?

4. What was different about Richard?

5. Who actually killed the two boys?

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