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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters XIV through XXVII.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Will Somers say is brought into question by the deaths of Henry's sons?
(a) The conditions of the castle.
(b) Whether Katherine is cursed.
(c) Katherine's health.
(d) Henry's masculinity.

2. What did Henry learn pearls are symbolic of?
(a) Tears.
(b) Children.
(c) Youth.
(d) Eyes.

3. How soon after the coronation did Katherine become pregnant?
(a) Three months.
(b) Six months.
(c) One year.
(d) One month.

4. On what day were Katherine and Henry crowned at Westminster Abbey?
(a) Midsummer's Day.
(b) Christmas Day.
(c) St. Stephen's Day.
(d) Hogmanay.

5. What did Wolsey arrange when a new organist came to Court?
(a) A concert.
(b) The organist to have a private audience with the King.
(c) The organist's assassination.
(d) A banquet in honor of the Queen.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was Thomas Wolsey?

2. How old was Henry when his father died?

3. 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?

4. Which of Henry's brothers was heir to become king before him?

5. The book begins with a series of letters written between Will Somers and whom?

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