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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many days after her son's birth did Jane Seymour die?
(a) Three days.
(b) Twelve days.
(c) Twenty days.
(d) Nine days.

2. How is the first meeting between Anna of Cleves and King Henry described?
(a) As comfortable.
(b) As tense.
(c) As awkward.
(d) As aggressive.

3. What did Henry and Jane name their firstborn son?
(a) Edward.
(b) Charles.
(c) Thomas.
(d) Henry.

4. In what year did King Henry and Anna of Cleves marry?
(a) 1540.
(b) 1530.
(c) 1536.
(d) 1542.

5. What were the religious rebellions which occurred after Henry married Jane Seymour provoked by?
(a) An attack by the French.
(b) Henry's dissolution of monasteries.
(c) Henry's decision to raise taxes.
(d) Henry's marriage to Jane.

6. How was Katherine punished for her infidelity?
(a) She was hanged.
(b) She was beheaded.
(c) She was drawn and quartered.
(d) She as burned at the stake.

7. Where was Anne Boleyn taken after she was arrested in 1536?
(a) To St. James' Palace.
(b) The Tower of London.
(c) To Westminster Abbey.
(d) One of Henry's palaces outside London.

8. In what month did Henry and Katherine Howard marry?
(a) March.
(b) September.
(c) July.
(d) January.

9. How old was Henry when he married Katherine Howard?
(a) In his thirties.
(b) In his forties.
(c) In his fifties.
(d) In his sixties.

10. Who was Henry Maddox?
(a) A clergyman.
(b) A guard.
(c) A school teacher.
(d) A tax collector.

11. Following the delivery of a stillborn son in 1534, what did Anne make statements to imply about the King?
(a) He was impotent.
(b) The King was afraid to go to war with France.
(c) The King had no want for a son.
(d) The child was not Henry's.

12. Why was the ceremony to crown Jane Seymour canceled?
(a) There was an outbreak of a plague.
(b) Rebels threatened to disrupt the ceremony.
(c) A fire destroyed the building it was to be held in.
(d) Jane was ill.

13. Anne and Henry named their firstborn child after ____________.
(a) Henry's sister.
(b) Henry's mother.
(c) Anne's mother.
(d) Anne's sister.

14. How did Anne react whenever Henry appeared to take notice of young women at court?
(a) She became depressed.
(b) She became jealous.
(c) She encouraged him to divorce her.
(d) She flirted with men.

15. In what season was Jane Seymour supposed to be crowned in a ceremony?
(a) Autumn.
(b) Summer.
(c) Spring.
(d) Winter.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who began to suffer health problems around 1535?

2. Which area of Henry's kingdom was particularly restless due to the religious revolution?

3. Sometime after the death of Jane Seymour, which two countries entered into a treaty that made King Henry nervous?

4. What about Anne's personality quickly began to irritate the King after they married?

5. To which of Henry's wives was Katherine Howard related?

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