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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who did Richard III appoint Constable of the Tower?
(a) Buckingham.
(b) William Slaughter.
(c) Sir Robert Brackenbury.
(d) Sir John Dudley.

2. Who did Richard III order to kill the Princes?
(a) Brackenbury.
(b) Norfolk.
(c) Buckingham.
(d) Green.

3. Why did the King choose Sheriff Hutton?
(a) He was obsessed with security.
(b) He had fond memories of the keep.
(c) He knew Henry Tudor would not come there.
(d) It was close to London.

4. What basically defeated the rebellion?
(a) Faulty equipment.
(b) Henry Tudor.
(c) Weather.
(d) Richard III.

5. Whose account is the earliest evidence of rumors that the Princes were dead?
(a) Sir Thomas More.
(b) The Buckingham Pages.
(c) Dominic Mancini.
(d) The Croyland Chronicle.

6. When did Henry officially date the beginning of his reign?
(a) The day Edward V was killed.
(b) The day of his birth.
(c) The day of his coronation.
(d) The day before Bosworth.

7. Who did Henry Tudor promise to marry on Christmas Day in 1483?
(a) Juana of Portugal.
(b) Eleanor of Brittany.
(c) Elizabeth of York.
(d) Katherine of Aragon.

8. How old was Henry VII when he gained the crown?
(a) 28.
(b) 20.
(c) 32.
(d) 19.

9. With what country was Henry VII in marriage negotiations for Prince Arthur?
(a) Spain.
(b) Finland.
(c) Scotland.
(d) France.

10. How long did Richard III's coronation banquet last?
(a) Five and a half hours.
(b) Three hours.
(c) Seven hours.
(d) Six and three-quarter hours.

11. Recorded by Thomas More, who confessed to killing the Princes?
(a) Richard III.
(b) Sir Brackenbury.
(c) Sir James Tyrell.
(d) William Slaughter.

12. What family was young Henry Tudor sent to live with in his formative years?
(a) Jasper Tudor, staunchly Lancastrian.
(b) The Earl of Pembroke.
(c) Lord Herbert, staunchly Yorkist.
(d) King Edward.

13. In what language were most of Richard III's devotional books?
(a) Latin.
(b) Welsh.
(c) English.
(d) French.

14. What tool was Richard III the first English king to utilize for his exercises in public relations?
(a) Propaganda, specifically character assassinations.
(b) Lotteries.
(c) Banners and balloons in London.
(d) Pamphlets.

15. Where did Richard spend his first night of his first progress?
(a) Cheapside.
(b) Reading.
(c) Bath.
(d) The Tower.

Short Answer Questions

1. With whom may Richard III have had an affair during his wife's illness?

2. What was Richard III's policy on the subject of the Princes?

3. At the time, what was needed for an uncle and a niece to marry?

4. What information could not be determined at the time from the bones?

5. What sovereign in 1933 finally authorized the urn carrying the bones to be opened?

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