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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. What was found behind a wall in a passageway of the King's Lodging n 1647?
(a) Richard III's date book.
(b) The Princes, alive.
(c) The skeletons of two small boys.
(d) Katherine of Aragon's wardrobe.

2. How did the English southerners view the English northerners?
(a) The southerners thought the northerners highly refined.
(b) The southerners thought the northerners were all Irish.
(c) The southerners thought the northerners were brutish people.
(d) The southerners thought the northerners were all Scottish.

3. What do revisionists such at Jack Leslau and Audrey Williamson believe?
(a) They believe Richard III murdered the Princes.
(b) They believe the Princes are still alive today.
(c) They believe the Princes were moved to France.
(d) They believe the Princes were moved to a safe haven.

4. How old was Margaret Beaufort when she gave birth to Henry Tudor?
(a) Twenty-five.
(b) Thirteen.
(c) Forty.
(d) Seventeen.

5. What rival factions would be united if Elizabeth and Henry Tudor married?
(a) The House of York and the House of Plantagenet.
(b) The House of York and the House of Lancaster.
(c) The House of Windsor and the House of Stuart.
(d) The House of Plantagenet and the House of Lancaster.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why was it dangerous for Henry VII that the bodies of the Princes were lost?

2. What made a marriage between Richard III and Elizabeth politically impossible?

3. What King ordered work on the White Tower and, as a result, may have found the Princes?

4. What hated system did Richard III abolish?

5. How many years of Plantagenet rule came to an end after the death of Richard III?

Short Essay Questions

1. In regard to the case of the death of the Princes and Richard III, what does Weir argue when others claim Richard could not be convicted in a modern court of law?

2. Why did Sir James Tyrell, after surviving the change of monarchs and even faring well under Henry VII, choose to support the Earl of Lincoln's ambitions?

3. How, probably, were the Princes murdered?

4. Why were the pretenders to the throne dangerous for Henry VII?

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

6. What was probably the tipping point for Buckingham's treason?

7. Ironically, how did the dead princes affect Richard III's reign as opposed to the living Princes?

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

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

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

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