Quiz  /  Tudor Period Quiz

  • 1. 
    Which English statesman and adviser to Henry VIII was the son of a butcher?

  • Thomas Wolsey
  • Richard Nanfan
  • Thomas Cromwell
  • Thomas More

  • 2. 
    Henry VIII’s marriage to which woman led to his break with the Roman Catholic Church?

  • Catherine Howard
  • Jane Seymour
  • Catherine Parr
  • Anne Boleyn

  • 3. 
    Which archbishop of Canterbury was burned at the stake for heresy during the Tudor period?

  • Thomas Cromwell
  • Thomas Becket
  • Stephen Langton
  • Thomas Cranmer

  • 4. 
    Which principal adviser to Henry VIII was eventually executed, in 1540, for heresy and treason?

  • Thomas Becket
  • Thomas More
  • Oliver Cromwell
  • Thomas Cromwell

  • 5. 
    Which queen of England was known as “the Virgin Queen”?

  • Catherine of Aragon
  • Mary I
  • Elizabeth I
  • Jane Seymour

  • 6. 
    Which English admiral circumnavigated the globe between 1577 and 1580?

  • Francis Drake
  • John Davis
  • Walter Raleigh
  • Humphrey Gilbert

  • 7. 
    Who led a formidable uprising against Mary I?

  • Richard Cromwell
  • Guy Fawkes
  • Thomas Wolsey
  • Sir Thomas Wyatt the Younger

  • 8. 
    Which English monarch encouraged the Protestant Reformation in England yet despised Martin Luther?

  • Edward VI
  • Elizabeth I
  • Henry VIII
  • Mary I

  • 9. 
    Who was the titular queen of England for nine days in 1553?

  • Lady Jane Grey
  • Mary, Queen of Scots
  • Anne Boleyn
  • Catherine of Aragon
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