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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the first step taken to dissolve the royal marriage?
(a) A legal trial.
(b) A request of the Pope.
(c) An ecclesiastical court hearing.
(d) A legatine commission.

2. What book did Anne Boleyn read that King Henry VIII insisted stay on the list of banned books?
(a) "The Supplication of Beggars."
(b) "A Glass of the Truth."
(c) "Utopia."
(d) "The Obedience of a Christian Man, and how Christian Kings ought to Govern."

3. What was embroidered on King Henry's jousting costume in February 1526?
(a) "I dare not share secrets."
(b) "Sir Loyal Heart."
(c) The initials "AB."
(d) "Declare, I dare not."

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

5. Which of Henry VIII's wives was misrepresented to him in a portrait?
(a) Jane Seymour.
(b) Anne of Cleves.
(c) Katherine Howard.
(d) Katherine Parr.

6. Where were Prince Arthur and Katherine of Aragon married?
(a) Windsor Castle.
(b) St. Paul's Cathedral.
(c) Westminster Abbey.
(d) The Tower of London.

7. Who was arrested in November, 1530?
(a) Thomas Cranmer.
(b) Cardinal Wolsey.
(c) Sir Thomas More.
(d) John Fisher, the Bishop of Rochester.

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

9. Who was the first man to whom Thomas Boleyn proposed to marry Anne?
(a) George Cavendish.
(b) James Butler.
(c) Henry Percy.
(d) Thomas Wyatt.

10. Where was Anne Boleyn sent in 1513?
(a) The court of Queen Katherine.
(b) The court of Margaret of Austria.
(c) The court of Louis XII.
(d) The court of Emperor Maximilian.

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

12. What was the primary responsibility of a queen?
(a) To advise the king.
(b) To bear heirs.
(c) To entertain visiting dignitaries.
(d) To manage the king's household.

13. What was given to Anne Boleyn by King Henry VIII in the autumn of 1528?
(a) Her own house.
(b) A set of silver dinnerware.
(c) A pair of horses.
(d) A diamond tiara.

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

15. Who visited King Henry VII in the spring of 1506?
(a) Ferdinand of Aragon.
(b) Pope Julius II.
(c) Louis XII, King of France.
(d) Queen Juana and King Philip of Castile.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where were King Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn married?

2. Who did King Henry VII wish to marry in 1507?

3. Who did King Henry VII secretly begin negotiations regarding as a bride for Prince Henry?

4. When is the last time recorded of Henry and Katherine sharing a bed?

5. Whose family chaplain did Thomas Cranmer become?

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