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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 7 and 8 Daughter of Debate and Without a Certain Heir.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Elizabeth's first personal brush with death in her reign?
(a) She contracted smallpox and was in bed for six days.
(b) She got the stomach flu and was extremely dehydrated.
(c) Robert Dudley contracted the black death.
(d) She discovered an assassination plot.

2. How did Amy Dudley's life end?
(a) She fell down the stairs of her home and broke her neck.
(b) She drowned after a shipwreck.
(c) She was killed by a vagrant with a sword.
(d) She contracted the sweating sickness.

3. Who was sent to negotiate the treaty with Scotland and France?
(a) Sir William Cecil.
(b) Pope Pius IV.
(c) Nicholas Throckmorton.
(d) Robert Dudley.

4. Which monarch ordered the most religion-related executions during his/her reign?
(a) Elizabeth I.
(b) Mary I.
(c) Edward VI.
(d) Mary, Queen of Scots.

5. Why may Cecil have killed Amy Dudley?
(a) He may have killed her to protect England.
(b) He may have killed her because she was too politically powerful.
(c) He may have killed her because he was psychotic.
(d) He may have killed her because he was jealous of Dudley.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the Queen promise to do for anyone who would make trouble for France?

2. What, the author theorizes, may have been part of Robin's allure for the Queen?

3. What reason did the Queen give in her refusal of Erik of Sweden?

4. In Chapter 4, who was the Queen's favorite person at court?

5. How long were Amy Dudley and Robert Dudley married?

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