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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the title of Henry VIII's treatise?
(a) "The Lamentations of a Sinner."
(b) "A Defence of the Seven Sacraments."
(c) "First Blast of the Trumpet against the Monstrous Regiment of Women."
(d) "An Exhortation to Young Men."

2. In what year was the most recent biography, before Weir's, of Henry VIII's wives written?
(a) 1905.
(b) 1773.
(c) 1986.
(d) 1854.

3. For what position did Anne Boleyn recommend Dame Eleanor Carey?
(a) Abbess of Wilton.
(b) Queen Isabella's maid of honor.
(c) Henry FitzRoy's governess.
(d) Queen Katherine's maid of honor.

4. What was the title of King Henry VIII's treatise on the "great matter"?
(a) "Truth Be Told."
(b) "A Glass Half Full."
(c) "The Truth and Nothing But the Truth."
(d) "A Glass of the Truth."

5. Who contracted the "sweating sickness" in the summer of 1528?
(a) Queen Katherine.
(b) Princess Mary.
(c) King Henry VIII.
(d) Anne Boleyn.

6. To whom did Katherine appeal for help by sending one of her servants?
(a) Emperor Charles V.
(b) King Francis I.
(c) Pope Clement.
(d) The Archbishop of Canterbury.

7. Who became Henry VIII's sister, Mary's, second husband?
(a) King Francis I.
(b) King Louis XII.
(c) Sir Thomas Boleyn, the Viscount Rochford.
(d) Charles Brandon, the Duke of Suffolk.

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

9. For whose execution did Katherine of Aragon always feel somewhat responsible?
(a) Her sister Isabella.
(b) Perkin Warbeck.
(c) Her nephew Miguel.
(d) Edward, Earl of Warwick.

10. Who denied in court that he had signed a document the King claimed had been signed by every Bishop in the country?
(a) The Bishop of Rochester.
(b) The Bishop of Ely.
(c) The Bishop of St. Asaph.
(d) The Bishop of Chichester.

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

12. What palace was renovated and renamed Whitehall for Anne Boleyn?
(a) York Place.
(b) Bridewell Palace.
(c) Eltham Palace.
(d) Hampton Court.

13. How many pregnancies did Katherine of Aragon go through between 1509 and 1515?
(a) Three.
(b) One.
(c) Five.
(d) Seven.

14. Who was sent to France with a secret message from King Henry VIII in March, 1533?
(a) Stephen Gardiner.
(b) George Boleyn.
(c) Thomas Cromwell.
(d) Thomas Cranmer.

15. On whom did Anne and her family plan to take revenge after she accepted the King's marriage proposal?
(a) Cardinal Wolsey.
(b) Queen Katherine.
(c) Thomas Wyatt.
(d) George Cavendish.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where were Prince Arthur and Katherine of Aragon married?

2. On what story was the first pageant staged in the Tudor court based?

3. Who was appointed as acting Spanish Ambassador to England in May of 1507?

4. In what province were the Spanish royal children raised?

5. To whom was the Princess Mary, Henry and Katherine's daughter, first betrothed?

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