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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. What was the first step taken to dissolve the royal marriage?

2. Who is Anne Boleyn and her family suspected of having attempted to murder in February, 1531?

3. What was the title of Henry VIII's treatise?

4. Whose residence was at Hampton Court?

5. In what year did Katherine of Aragon arrive in England?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why was King Henry VII so eager to marry his eldest son to one of Spain's princesses?

2. Describe the legate Campeggio's first meeting with King Henry VIII.

3. What was the public's opinion of Anne Boleyn?

4. Why was the Pope involved in Katherine of Aragon's betrothal to Prince Henry?

5. What caused Anne Boleyn's enmity for Cardinal Wolsey?

6. What was Thomas Cranmer's solution to the King's marital quandary?

7. Describe the state of women's rights during the Tudor period.

8. What is the tradition of courtly love?

9. Describe the Princess Mary's childhood.

10. How was the King's case left in July, 1529?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What was the state of women's lives in Tudor England? What kind of power did they have? What choices? Please use three examples.

Essay Topic 2

How do King Henry VIII's marriages affect the lives of his children? Think about each child and each marriage and whether they were treated well or poorly, and why.

Essay Topic 3

Religious conflict is one of the major themes that runs throughout this text. Please discuss the effects this conflict had on the wives of Henry VIII, including their public reception and the ways in which they were used, before and after their marriages, by those around the King to promote one side of the conflict.

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