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Speeches of Queen Elizabeth I — Quiz

Question 20 • English IV

Which excerpts from Queen Elizabeth's Response to Parliament's Request That She Marry rely on a rhetorical appeal to logos to persuade her audience that even if she produced an heir it would not guarantee England’s prosperity or safety? Choose two correct answers.

Answer
A
I give you all my hearty thanks for the good zeal and loving care you seem to have.
B
You may well assure yourselves, my meaning is not to determine any thing.
C
I always continued in this determination, although my youth and words may seem to some hardly to agree together, yet is it most true.
D
The realm shall not remain destitute of any heir that may be a fit governour, and peradventure more beneficial to the realm.
E
For though I be never so careful of your well-doing, and mind ever so to be, yet may my issue grow out of kind, and become perhaps ungracious.

Explanation

D argues that the realm could have a suitable ruler even if Elizabeth did not provide an heir, and that another ruler might benefit the realm more. E gives a further reason: even if Elizabeth had a child, that child might grow up to be unfit or “ungracious.” These practical possibilities support the logical point that producing an heir would not guarantee England’s prosperity or safety.

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