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King Richard III King Edward IV King Henry IV King Henry VI
2. Who was the famed "Captain of Calais" during this turmultuous period?
Richard Neville Henry Tudor George, Duke of Clarence Robin of Redesdale
3. The battle in which King Richard was killed was....
Barnet Bosworth field Wakefield St Albans
4. The family fighting for Royal succession in the Wars of the Roses were...
the Stuarts the Plantagenets the Hanovers the Windsors
5. Many historians believe the Wars began from a private quarrel between...
the Percys and the Tudors the Cliffords and the Pastons the Stoners and the Mortimors the Percys and the Nevilles
6. The Kingmaker and his King fell out due to...
different foreign policy desires an unliked marriage of the King's the King not allowing the Kingmaker's daughters to marry Clarence or Gloucester All of the above
7. Shakespeare called who a "proud setter up and puller down of kings"?
George, Duke of Clarence Lord Hastings Richard, Earl of Warwick Richard, Earl of Salisbury
8. The battle of Teweksbury effectively...
ended the Lancastrian chances for power. ended the Tudor chances for power. gave the throne to Henry VIII. ended the power of the Kingmaker.
9. The battle of Towton was...
a Lancastrian victory a victory for Queen Margaret relatively unimportant as a minor skirmish the bloodiest battle on English soil
10. The Wars of the Roses were...
devestating to the lower classes, whose lives were upended of little historical importance to the growth of Britain of no contemporary importance outside of England a thirty year war of which actual campaigning lasted less than two years
11. What Monarch, deposed by questional means, was used by Richard of York to denounce the Lancastrian line?
Richard II Henry IV Edward III The Black Prince
12. Which of these foreign powers militarily supported King Edward IV?
France Burgundy Italy Spain
13. Which of these sources is of immense importance to the study of 15th century England?
The Dartmoor Chronicles Edward IV's personal diary The Cromwell Papers The Paston Letters
14. Which of the following was not a battle during the Wars of the Roses?
Mortimer's Cross Wakefield Marston Moor Bloreheath
15. Which of these individuals was killed in the First Battle of St. Albans?
Duke of Somerset Duke of York Earl of Salisbury Duke of Gloucester
16. Which historian takes a traditional view of Richard III?
Paul Murray Kendall Jeremy Potter Charles Ross Anthony Cheetham
17. This college was established by Henry VI....
Oxford Eton Winchester Warwick
18. Edward IV was born here in 1442.
London Dublin York Rouen
19. According to the College of Arms, this was Edward IV's badge as Earl of March.
White Lion Gold Draught Horse Chained Antelope A Bull Passant Sable
20. This Earl was one of few who made it through the wars unscathed by staying politically and militarily neutral.
William, Earl of Arundel William Neville, Earl of Kent Henry Bourchier, Earl of Essex Anthony, Earl Rivers
21. According to the studies of K.B. McFarlane, Noble families became extinct at approximately what rate from 1425-1449, 1450-1474, and 1475-1499? (as you can see from the consistancy of the number, the Wars had little effect on the number of families being wiped out)
50% 10% 75% 25%
22. Henry VII's claim to the throne was through what family (descended from his great-great grandfather, John of Gaunt).
Tudor Beauchamp Lancaster Beaufort
23. "King Richard, late mercifully reigning upon us was...piteously slain and murdered, to the great heaviness of this city." The civic record of what city includes these words?
York London Derby Norwich