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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 13-14, The Princes in the Tower, The Wicked Uncle.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After discovering the conspiracy, what did Richard III do?
(a) He executed everyone, including the former Queen.
(b) He gave up his crown and returned it to Edward V.
(c) He dragged Elizabeth Wydville out of sanctuary himself.
(d) He tightened the security around the sanctuary of Westminster.

2. Where did the Queen flee for sanctuary?
(a) Westminster.
(b) Northampton.
(c) St. Paul's Cathedral.
(d) Bath.

3. When Gloucester and Buckingham arrived at Northampton, where was the King?
(a) Fourteen miles south in Stony Stratford.
(b) Thirty miles south in London.
(c) Fifteen miles north in Bath.
(d) Ten miles west in Shropshire.

4. What charge did Warwick and Clarence try to level against Edward IV?
(a) They tried to declare his marriage invalid.
(b) They tried to charge him with murder.
(c) They attempted to have him declared a bastard.
(d) They attempted to disprove his policies.

5. Who did Clarence, King Edward IV's brother, marry?
(a) Maria, the Spanish Infanta.
(b) Josephine, Louis XI's daughter.
(c) Isabella, the Earl of Warwick's daughter.
(d) Elizabeth Wydville.

Short Answer Questions

1. What other major health problem did Edward IV have after his return?

2. At the time of the War of the Roses, how much of the English population lived in towns and cities?

3. Who were the other Lancastrian claimants to the throne?

4. Why weren't Clarence's children eligible for the succession?

5. In 1453, King Henry VI suffered what kind of mental illness?

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