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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3, How Many Wives Will He Have?: Chapter 16.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did King Henry VIII do daily to divert his attention from his marital troubles?
(a) He went hunting.
(b) He played tennis.
(c) He drank heavily.
(d) He visited his children.

2. On what story was the first pageant staged in the Tudor court based?
(a) Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves.
(b) Noah's Ark.
(c) The Garden of Eden.
(d) Robin Hood.

3. Whose death in November, 1504, radically changed the political landscape of Europe?
(a) King Henry VII.
(b) Queen Isabella of Castile.
(c) Queen Elizabeth of York.
(d) Ferdinand of Aragon.

4. With whom did King Henry VIII begin an affair in September, 1535?
(a) Madge Shelton.
(b) Jane Seymour.
(c) Mary Boleyn.
(d) Anne Gainsford.

5. Who became Lord Chancellor in April, 1544?
(a) Thomas Wriothesley, Earl of Southampton..
(b) Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury.
(c) Sir Thomas Seymour.
(d) Stephen Gardiner, Bishop of Winchester.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of Henry VIII's wives was misrepresented to him in a portrait?

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

3. Which of Henry VIII's wives took as her motto, "No other will than his"?

4. Who denied in court that he had signed a document the King claimed had been signed by every Bishop in the country?

5. Whose plan was it to accuse Anne Boleyn of adultery and treason?

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