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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old was Henry's son, Henry Fitzroy, when he was knighted?
(a) Six years old.
(b) Three years old.
(c) Ten years old.
(d) Seventeen years old.

2. What ailment caused Katherine constant pain by the time she was forty-years-old?
(a) A festering sore.
(b) A lame leg.
(c) Arthritis.
(d) A bad back.

3. As a child, what did Henry's mother have planned for his adult life?
(a) He would go abroad and marry a princess.
(b) He would enter the priesthood.
(c) He would serve his brother.
(d) He would join the military.

4. When he realized his Council was still acting for the dead king and not him, what type of man did Henry seek to add to his Council?
(a) One who would take over his responsibilities as King.
(b) One who would influence the other members.
(c) One who would be loyal only to him.
(d) One who would act as a saboteur.

5. Why was Henry enraged to find out Wolsey had had an affair and had two sons?
(a) Wolsey was a priest.
(b) Wolsey was married to Henry's sister.
(c) Wolsey was a eunich.
(d) Wolsey had promised Henry he had no family.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose son did Wolsey arrange for Bessie to marry?

2. What role did Henry note his father never assigned to any of his councilmen?

3. What did Henry realize had happened when the King of France sent him a reply to a letter?

4. What was Henry's father's final piece of advice to Henry before dying?

5. Why did Henry want to marry by private ceremony before his coronation?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Henry say things changed between he and Katherine after the death of their first child?

2. What was significant about the letter Henry received from the King of France right after becoming King?

3. How did Katherine's first pregnancy end, and what happened to the child?

4. After Henry became King, what gift did King Louis of France send to him during Christmas, and how did Henry react to it?

5. At the beginning of the novel, who does Will Somers carry out a correspondence with, and what news does he share in his letters?

6. What health problem did Henry's father develop, and how did Henry feel about the possibility that his father would die?

7. What prompted Henry to send Anne Boleyn back to her family home, Hever?

8. After becoming King, what did Henry learn about two of his father's financial officers, and how did he deal with the situation?

9. What did Henry discover about Wolsey at the Lark's Morning inn?

10. Following his brother's death, what statement from Henry's mother was said to have had a lasting effect on him?

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