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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does King Philip go to the area where Hannah lives in summer, 1557?
(a) To recruit soldiers.
(b) To choose land for a new royal palace.
(c) To visit with French dignitaries.
(d) To oversee the trial of a murderer.

2. What does the King contemplate doing in spring, 1555?
(a) Asking the Queen to return to court.
(b) Keeping Elizabeth at court.
(c) Arranging a marriage between Elizabeth and his brother.
(d) Banishing Elizabeth from court.

3. What does not improve the Queen's health in autumn, 1558?
(a) The tonics she uses.
(b) Keeping her in hightly heated rooms.
(c) The birth of her child.
(d) The change of venue.

4. Why is Mr. Dee arrested?
(a) For practicing the Jewish religion.
(b) For casting the Queen's horoscope.
(c) For suggesting the Queen is cursed and cannot have children.
(d) For supporting the rebellion against the Queen.

5. What does Hannah learn about the Queen in the summer of 1557?
(a) She is pregnant.
(b) She is dying.
(c) She has turned against Elizabeth again.
(d) She has declared war on Germany.

6. In what language does Mary ask Hannah to write her husband a letter in in 1558?
(a) Spanish.
(b) French.
(c) English.
(d) German.

7. Where does Elizabeth go in autumn, 1555?
(a) Carlisle.
(b) Hatfield.
(c) Pembroke.
(d) Portsmouth.

8. What does Queen Mary begin to feel anxious about in spring, 1555?
(a) The dizzy spells she has been experiencing.
(b) Word that the rebels are organizing against her again.
(c) That her husband has not written to her from Spain.
(d) Her baby's lateness in arriving.

9. How does Hannah feel during the months following her father's death?
(a) Relieved.
(b) Worried.
(c) Angry.
(d) Lonely.

10. What does Hannah monitor closely in the winter of 1556?
(a) Daniel's health.
(b) News of England.
(c) Her weight.
(d) The weather.

11. What does Hannah warn Elizabeth against in the spring of 1555?
(a) Becoming so intimate with the King.
(b) Continuing to plot against the Catholics.
(c) Marrying into the French royal family.
(d) Marrying into the Spanish royal family.

12. What complicated Queen Mary's health in autumn, 1558?
(a) A snap of very cold weather.
(b) Insomnia.
(c) Her husband's death.
(d) Her loneliness and sorrow.

13. Where does Hannah find new quarters for herself and her father in 1556?
(a) Near the city walls.
(b) Across the street from the Carpenters.
(c) Above her father's printing shop.
(d) In the countryside.

14. What does Mrs. Carpenter disclose to Hannah after Hannah had been married for two months?
(a) That Daniel has joined the army.
(b) That her daughters dislike and distrust Hannah.
(c) That Daniel has a son with someone else.
(d) That Daniel is not her real son.

15. Who is Kat Ashley?
(a) A Tudor cousin.
(b) Elizabeth's closest maid.
(c) The King's mistress.
(d) Daniel's married sister.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Hannah escape the invasion?

2. What does Hannah do to draw less attention to her status as single women?

3. What is done to the Queen's quarters in spring of 1555?

4. What does Hannah read to her ailing father?

5. What does Mrs. Carpenter confront Hannah about two months after her wedding?

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