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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. With whom may Richard III have had an affair during his wife's illness?
(a) Elizabeth of York.
(b) Margaret Beaufort.
(c) Elizabeth Shore.
(d) Elizabeth Wydville.

2. The conspiracy was evidence that, while the Princes lived, Richard III's reign would be what?
(a) Challenged.
(b) Peaceful.
(c) Short.
(d) Safe.

3. Just before leaving for his progress, Richard III gave his son Edward of Middleham what title?
(a) Constable of Scotland.
(b) Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.
(c) Lord Protector of London.
(d) Ambassador to France.

4. Who did Perkin Warbeck pretend to be?
(a) Henry, Duke of York.
(b) Richard, Duke of York.
(c) Richard Plantagenet.
(d) Edward V.

5. Who was Margaret Beaufort?
(a) The mother of Edward V and Richard, Duke of York.
(b) The cousin of Edward IV.
(c) The sister of Elizabeth Wydville.
(d) The daughter of John of Gaunt and wife of the late Henry Tudor.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Richard spend his first night of his first progress?

2. What do revisionists such at Jack Leslau and Audrey Williamson believe?

3. What family inherited the throne after Elizabeth I's death in 1603?

4. What basically defeated the rebellion?

5. On what night does Weir suspect the murders took place?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why would Richard III have considered marrying his eighteen-year-old niece Elizabeth of York?

2. What rumor persisted after Anne's death?

3. With the death of the Princes, who did many people turn to as the rightful Queen of England?

4. How did Henry Tudor finally claim the English crown?

5. Why was Richard of York often impersonated, but Edward V never impersonated?

6. Richard III was a violent, duplicitous, and demanding man--how can Weir claim he possessed real spiritual piety?

7. After their marriage, what children of Elizabeth of York and Henry VII lived to adulthood?

8. Why did Elizabeth of York finally send Henry Tudor a ring and declare that she would marry him?

9. Sadly, what had the conspirators made clear to Richard III that was the opposite of their intent?

10. What was the only was Elizabeth Wydville would allow her daughters to go to Richard III's court?

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