1. Where in England was Samuel Pepys born on February 23, 1633? Salisbury Court in London Creeting St. Mary, Suffolk Grantham, Lincolnshire Dorking, Surrey

2. Which one of the following about Pepys' childhood is NOT correct? His father was a tailor, and his mother was a former washmaid. His parents had eleven children but only four survived childhood. Pepys came from a musical family that played many instruments. He was orphaned as a baby and raised by his uncle, a Whitechapel butcher.

3. Did Samuel Pepys have the opportunity to receive a university education? Yes No

4. Which one of the following statements best describes Elizabeth, the lady Pepys married in 1655? She was a daughter of the wealthy rector of Brompton. She was a wealthy London widow several years his senior. She was a young, pretty girl whose father was a penniless Frenchman. Pepys married his first cousin to please his uncle and father.

5. What kind of surgery did Pepys have on March 26, 1658? He had an emergency tracheotomy Pepys had a large mole taken off his face. A stone was removed from his bladder. His impacted wisdom teeth were cut out.

6. Samuel Pepys was one of the first gentlemen in London, to adopt the French fashion of wearing a periwig. True False

7. What was the name of Pepys' patron, the man who helped Pepys establish his career on the Navy Board? Anthony Ashley Cooper, Earl of Shaftesbury Edward Montagu, Earl of Sandwich Alexandre le Marchand de Michel Sir Richard Boteler

8. In what year did Pepys begin keeping his now famous diary? 1665 1669 1655 1660

9. Which one of Pepys' family died on Nov. 10, 1669? Tom Pepys (his brother) Robert Pepys (his uncle) Margaret Kite Pepys (his mother) Elizabeth Pepys (his wife)

10. Which of the following did not occur to Pepys in 1665, the year of London's Great Plague? He became a member of the Royal Society. He personally visited the plague pit at Moorfields. His personal fortunes greatly increased. He lost John Pepys, his father, to the plague.

11. Was Pepys the first to tell King Charles II that that a great fire was burning in London in 1666? Yes No

12. What was Pepys accused of that led to his arrest and imprisonment in the Tower of London in 1679? Practicing witchcraft with the members of the Royal Society Being a Catholic and selling naval secrets to the French. Plotting against James, the Duke of York, the king's brother Rerouting £10,000 from the navy to his own accounts

13. What happened to Pepys and his longtime companion, Mary Skinner, on September 29, 1693? They were nearly drowned on an excursion on the Thames. Their house was broken into and all their valuables were stolen. Their coach was robbed by highwaymen. They were robbed on a London street while walking to the theatre.

14. Samuel Pepys married his companion of thirty-three years, Mary Skinner, two weeks before his death in 1703. True False

15. In his will where did Pepys bequeath all of his books, manuscripts, and the six volumes that comprised his diary? Magdalene College, Cambridge Royal Society The Greater Ormond Hospital for Sick Children John Jackson, his nephew