Which royal dynasty was established in the resolution of the so-called War of the Roses and continued through the reign of Elizabeth I ?

Related Mcqs:

1. Which group of intellectual women established literary clubs of their own around 1750 under the leadership of Elizabeth Vesey and Elizabeth Montagu ?

   A. the Behnites
   B. the bluestockings
   C. the coteries of plenty
   D. the Pre-Raphaelites

2. Which group of intellectual women established literary clubs of their own around 1750 under the leadership of Elizabeth Vesey and Elizabeth Montagu ?

   A. the bluestockings
   B. the coteries of plenty
   C. the Pre-Raphaelites
   D. the tattlers and spectators

3. Which of the following shifts began in the reign of Henry VII and continued under his Tudor successors ?

   A. the growing authority of the Pope over domestic English affairs
   B. the expansion of England’s colonial possessions
   C. the rise in the power and confidence of the aristocracy
   D. the countering of feudal power structures by a stronger central authority

4. Elizabeth and Mary I belonged to what royal family ?

   A. Windsor
   B. Stuart
   C. Tudor
   D. Plantagenet

5. Who succeeded Elizabeth I in 1603, establishing the Stuart dynasty ?

   A. James IV of Scotland
   B. James VI of Scotland
   C. Mary, Queen of Scots
   D. Anne Boleyn
    

6. Which royal dynasty Edmund Spenser celebrates in his epic poem The Faerie Queene ?

   A. Tudor
   B. Stuart
   C. Anjou
   D. Plantagenet

7. What church did Elizabeth I establish or re-establish by law in England during her reign ?

   A. The Anglican Church
   B. The Roman Catholic Church
   C. Calvinism
   D. The Lutheran Church

8. Elizabeth’s reign was longer than that of any other Tudor. When she died at the age of 69 in 1603, how many years had she reigned ?

   A. 35
   B. 40
   C. 45
   D. 50

9. The first stanza of Countee Cullen’s “A Brown Girl Dead” reads: “With two white roses on her breasts,/White candles at head and feet,/Dark Madonna of the grave she rests;/Lord Death has found her sweet.” Which of the following statements accurately characterizes these lines ?

   A. These lines evoke Christian imagery to emphasize the dignity of the girl who died.
   B. These lines evoke Christian imagery to suggest that death erases racial divisions.
   C. These lines present the problem of racial prejudice in an ironic mode.
   D. Both A and B

10. What was Elizabeth’s close circle of advisers called ?

    A. The Star Chamber
    B. Parliament
    C. The Privy Council
    D. The Cabinet