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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What title was bestowed upon Thomas Boleyn in 1525?
(a) Earl of Northumberland.
(b) Duke of Norfolk.
(c) Viscount Rochford.
(d) Viscount of Kent.

2. Of what feature was King Henry VIII extremely proud?
(a) His hair.
(b) His eyes.
(c) His legs.
(d) His hands.

3. To what leader did Henry VIII marry his sister, Mary Tudor?
(a) King Francis I.
(b) Emperor Charles V.
(c) King Louis XII.
(d) Emperor Maximilian.

4. What wifely chore was Anne Boleyn furious to discover that King Henry VIII was giving to Queen Katherine instead of herself?
(a) Choosing the menus.
(b) Tasting his food.
(c) Mending his shirts.
(d) Cutting his hair.

5. What was the chief issue of a marriage contract?
(a) A woman's dowry.
(b) The division of joint property.
(c) A man's ability to provide for his wife.
(d) The date and time of the wedding.

6. To whom did King Henry VIII first go to for help with dissolving his marriage?
(a) Pope Clement.
(b) Thomas Boleyn.
(c) King Francis I.
(d) Cardinal Wolsey.

7. Which of these men was not one of Katherine of Aragon's lawyers?
(a) Stephen Gardiner.
(b) Archbishop Warham.
(c) John Fisher.
(d) The Bishop of Ely.

8. For what position did Anne Boleyn recommend Dame Eleanor Carey?
(a) Abbess of Wilton.
(b) Queen Isabella's maid of honor.
(c) Queen Katherine's maid of honor.
(d) Henry FitzRoy's governess.

9. How did Prince Arthur die?
(a) From a virus.
(b) He fell off his horse.
(c) From consumption.
(d) He was killed in battle.

10. Who was sent by King Henry VIII to Rome to request a dispensation allowing him to remarry?
(a) Cardinal Wolsey.
(b) Thomas Boleyn.
(c) Dr. William Knight.
(d) George Cavendish.

11. To whom was Wolsey sent to appeal for help for the King in 1527?
(a) Pope Clement.
(b) The Archbishop of Canterbury.
(c) Emperor Charles V.
(d) King Francis I.

12. In what year were Katherine of Aragon and Arthur, Prince of Wales, formally betrothed?
(a) 1488.
(b) 1489.
(c) 1497.
(d) 1500.

13. Who was appointed as acting Spanish Ambassador to England in May of 1507?
(a) Katherine of Aragon.
(b) Pedro de Ayala.
(c) Luis Caroz.
(d) Dr. de Puebla.

14. With whom did King Henry VIII fall passionately in love in 1527?
(a) Mary Boleyn.
(b) Katherine of Aragon.
(c) Anne Boleyn.
(d) Isabella of Portugal.

15. Of what did King Henry VII die?
(a) Consumption.
(b) A jousting injury.
(c) Old age.
(d) A fall from a horse.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the title of Henry VIII's treatise?

2. Whose account of Queen Katherine's speech at the legatine court is recorded in Weir's book?

3. What was the name given to the tax that the English people paid to Rome?

4. What was given to Anne Boleyn by King Henry VIII in the autumn of 1528?

5. Which of Henry VIII's wives took as her motto, "Bound to obey and serve"?

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