Name ___________________
Modern World History
Mr. Kraft
Reformation
Elizabeth Questions
Character Clarification:
Mary Tudor (“Bloody” Mary) – Kathy Burke
Philip II of Spain (Mary’s Husband) – George Yiasoumi
Elizabeth Tudor (The Virgin Queen) – Cate Blanchet
Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester (Elizabeth’s lover) – Joseph Fiennes
Sir William Cecil (Elizabeth’s advisor) – Richard Attenborough
Sir Francis Walsingham (Elizabeth’s bodyguard) – Geoffrey Rush
Duke of Norfolk – Chris Eccelston
Earl of Sussex – Jamie Foreman
Ambassador Alvaro de la Quadra (Spanish Ambassador) – James Frain
Mary of Guise (Queen of Scotland) – Fanny Ardant
Ambassador Monsleur de Folx (French Ambassador) – Eric Cantonia
Duke of Anjou (Brother of King of France and Nephew of Mary of Guise) – Vincent Cassel
Questions:
1. In what year does this movie take place?
2. What is the religion of the people being sent to death?
3. What two people have sentenced these people to death?
4. Who does Queen Mary call a “whore”?
5. Who is the “whore” the mother of?
6. Where is Elizabeth jailed and on whose authority is she jailed?
7. On what charge is Elizabeth thrown in jail?
8. What is meant by the quote “There is but one true belief, the other is heresy.”
9. Who is the father of both Mary and Elizabeth?
10. What does Queen Mary plead to Elizabeth to do if she becomes Queen of England?
11. Who is the first to propose marriage to Elizabeth, and what country is he from?
12. What is taken from Queen Mary’s hand when she dies, and who is it given to?
13. What does Sir William Cecil tell Elizabeth she must do in order to secure her throne and her country
England?
14. Who is the second person to propose marriage to Elizabeth, and what country is he from?
15. What does Sir William Cecil ask Elizabeth’s servants to bring him every morning?
16. What country does Mary of Guise rule, and what are her intentions towards Elizabeth and England?
17. What is the message that Mary of Guise sends to Elizabeth after England’s the failed war attempt in
Scotland?
18. What is the offer that Mary of Guise gives to Elizabeth in order for Scotland not to invade England?
19. What type of Church of England does Elizabeth desire to have under the Act of Uniformity?
20. Under what terms do the priests say they will agree to passing of the Act of Uniformity?
21. How many votes was the Act of Uniformity passed by, and how was this made possible?
22. What is the Spanish Ambassador trying to convince Robert Dudley to do?
23. What was the job of the man in the black robe sent from the Vatican City by the Pope?
24. Who kills Mary of Guise?
25. What does Elizabeth decide to do with her advisor Sir William Cecil?
26. Why were all of the people being arrested and executed?
27. What does Elizabeth decide to do with Robert Dudley?
28. Why does Elizabeth decide to call herself the Virgin Queen?
29. How does Elizabeth change her appearance to symbolize her nickname?
30. What is the name of the time period that Queen Elizabeth ruled England?