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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Gloucester behave toward his nephew?
(a) He tried to adopt him.
(b) He ignored him completely.
(c) He was withdrawn and suspicious.
(d) He openly supported him.

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

3. In what year was Richard of Gloucester born?
(a) 1443.
(b) 1462.
(c) 1452.
(d) 1554.

4. Who was briefly made King during the rebellion?
(a) Henry VI.
(b) Edward V.
(c) Richard II.
(d) Clarence.

5. During the time period, what did people think physical deformity meant about an individual?
(a) They thought physical deformity meant godliness.
(b) They thought physical deformity represented spiritual deformity.
(c) They thought physical deformity was reversible.
(d) They thought physical deformity was due to bathing.

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

7. What were Gloucester and Buckingham planning?
(a) A coronation party for King Edward V.
(b) A war with Scotland.
(c) A war with France.
(d) A coup.

8. What group was appointed to watch over the Prince of Wales until he reached adulthood?
(a) A legal team of Parliament lawyers.
(b) A group of German mercenaries.
(c) An elite team of knights including Arthur and Lancelot.
(d) A Council including the Queen, Richard, and Clarence.

9. How many legitimate children did Richard have?
(a) Five.
(b) Thirteen.
(c) Three.
(d) One.

10. How did Hastings react when Richard confided his plans to him?
(a) Hastings supported him in usurping the throne.
(b) Hastings flees north to Scotland.
(c) Hastings was shocked and warned the king.
(d) Hastings immediately plans to seize the throne for himself.

11. What title did Edward IV give Richard just before his death?
(a) Interim King Richard III.
(b) Duke of Warwick.
(c) The High Admiral.
(d) The Lord Protector of the Realm.

12. In what part of England were the Wydvilles in control?
(a) The east.
(b) The west.
(c) The south.
(d) The north.

13. What other member of his family did Gloucester have to slander to overcome the Princes?
(a) Clarence, his brother.
(b) The Duchess of York, his mother.
(c) Elizabeth, his sister.
(d) Anne Neville, his wife.

14. Where in the Tower of London were the Princes probably kept?
(a) The White Tower.
(b) The Garden Tower.
(c) Raleigh's Walk.
(d) The Bloody Tower.

15. Who was the first sovereign of the House of York?
(a) Henry V.
(b) Henry VI.
(c) Edward IV.
(d) Edward VI.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Edward IV take out loans from London financiers?

2. At age forty, how is Edward IV described physically by his contemporaries?

3. Who probably wrote the Croyland Chronicle?

4. What rumored conspiracy did Gloucester exaggerate to further his own ambitions?

5. What is Weir's theory about Richard's alleged physical deformity?

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