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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. On whom did Anne and her family plan to take revenge after she accepted the King's marriage proposal?
2. Who was later hailed as the founder of the Protestant religion?
3. On what part of her body did Anne Boleyn have a small deformity?
4. How many pregnancies did Katherine of Aragon go through between 1509 and 1515?
5. To whom did Anne become secretly engaged in 1523?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why did Katherine of Aragon appeal to Emperor Charles V for help with her legal issues?
2. What were the two main factors that converged in 1527 to spur King Henry VIII to action regarding the dissolution of his marriage to Katherine of Aragon?
3. Describe the Princess Mary's childhood.
4. How did Queen Isabella's death affect her daughter, Katherine of Aragon, politically?
5. Why did King Henry VII deliberately delay making a decision about whether or not Katherine of Aragon should accompany her husband to Ludlow?
6. Why was the confessor, Fray Diego, so controversial in Katherine of Aragon's household?
7. How did Anne Boleyn humiliate Queen Katherine in 1532?
8. What caused Anne Boleyn's enmity for Cardinal Wolsey?
9. What was the Renaissance Court?
10. How was a marriage executed in Tudor England?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
King Henry VIII had several powerful advisers that rose to power at someone else's expense and then fell just as quickly. Please choose one of these advisers and discuss how his eminence affected and was affected by Henry VIII's wife at the time.
Essay Topic 2
In what ways does King Henry VIII change throughout the course of his reign? Think about this in terms of the physical, religious, social, political, and emotional. Use at least three specific examples.
Essay Topic 3
Using specific examples, discuss how Weir creates fact-based but fully-developed, human descriptions of the people in the story of King Henry VIII. What about her descriptions helps these people come alive?
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