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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 request of the Pope.
(b) An ecclesiastical court hearing.
(c) A legal trial.
(d) A legatine commission.

2. How did King Henry VIII prefer to be addressed?
(a) "Your Grace."
(b) "Your Majesty."
(c) "Sir King."
(d) "Your Highness."

3. On what day did the proceedings of the legatine court actually commence?
(a) June 18, 1529.
(b) May 30, 1529.
(c) June 8, 1529.
(d) May 31, 1529.

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

5. Which of Henry VIII's wives took as her motto, "No other will than his"?
(a) Katherine Howard.
(b) Anne of Cleves.
(c) Jane Seymour.
(d) Katherine of Aragon.

6. Whose residence was at Hampton Court?
(a) Spanish Ambassador Luis Caroz.
(b) Sir Thomas More.
(c) King Henry VIII.
(d) Cardinal Thomas Wolsey.

7. When is the last time recorded of Henry and Katherine sharing a bed?
(a) October 1524.
(b) December 1528.
(c) May 1527.
(d) June 1529.

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

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

10. What was the summit between King Henry VIII and King Francis I called?
(a) Frolics in the Field.
(b) The Golden Field.
(c) The Field of Cloth of Gold.
(d) The Golden Summit.

11. Who was the bride of Emperor Charles V?
(a) Princess Mary, the King's daughter.
(b) Mary Boleyn.
(c) Mary Tudor, the King's sister.
(d) Isabella of Portugal.

12. Which of these people was not a supporter of Queen Katherine?
(a) John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester.
(b) Mary Tudor, the King's sister.
(c) Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk.
(d) Sir Thomas More.

13. In what year did Katherine of Aragon arrive in England?
(a) 1499.
(b) 1500.
(c) 1498.
(d) 1501.

14. What monarch founded the Tudor dynasty?
(a) Henry VII.
(b) Elizabeth I.
(c) Henry VIII.
(d) Mary I.

15. Which of Henry VIII's wives died from complications during childbirth?
(a) Katherine Howard.
(b) Katherine of Aragon.
(c) Jane Seymour.
(d) Anne of Cleves.

Short Answer Questions

1. To whom was Wolsey sent to appeal for help for the King in 1527?

2. On what part of her body did Anne Boleyn have a small deformity?

3. What title was bestowed upon Anne Boleyn in September, 1532?

4. To whom did Anne become secretly engaged in 1523?

5. In what year were Katherine of Aragon and Arthur, Prince of Wales, formally betrothed?

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