The Break with Rome Quiz - The Tudor Society

On Friday 24th June 2016 the majority of British people voted to leave the European Union and this had been compared by some newspapers to Henry VIII's Break with Rome. So, here you go, a Break with Rome quiz! Have fun and good luck!

Q1) Whose book, which challenged the Pope’s "temporal authority over king and emperor", helped Henry VIII see how he could get his marriage to Catherine of Aragon annulled while also limiting the powers of the Pope in England?

Martin Luther's

William Tyndale's

John Calvin's

Erasmus's

Correct! The book was called "The Obedience of a Christen man, and how Christen rulers ought to govern, wherein also (if thou mark diligently) thou shalt find eyes to perceive the crafty convience of all jugglers".

Wrong! It's William Tyndale's "The Obedience of a Christen man, and how Christen rulers ought to govern, wherein also (if thou mark diligently) thou shalt find eyes to perceive the crafty convience of all jugglers".

Q2) In which year did Convocation grant Henry VIII the title of "singular protector, supreme lord, and even, so far as the law of Christ allows, supreme head of the English church and clergy"?

1531

1532

1533

1534

Correct! It was on 11th February 1531.

Wrong! It was on 11th February 1531.

Q3) In 2015, a book which contained " a summary of the theories of the medieval philosopher and theologian William of Ockham" regarding "the limits of the power of the pope, and the independence of the authority of monarchs", which is thought to have been used in Henry's quest for an annulment and to support his break with Rome, was found in which English county?

Devon

Hampshire

Gloucestershire

Cornwall

Correct! It was found in the library at Lanhydrock, a National Trust property in Cornwall.

Wrong! It was found in the library at Lanhydrock, a National Trust property in Cornwall.

Q4) The Parliament that sat between 1529 and 1534, and which passed the legislation regarding the Break with Rome, is known as the...

The Break with Rome Parliament

The Dissolution Parliament

The Reformation Parliament

The Parliament of the Great Matter

Correct!

Wrong! It's the Reformation Parliament.

Q5) In March 1532, the first part of the legal process of the Break with Rome began with the Act in Restraint of Annates. What were "annates"?

Ecclesiastical laws laid down by the Pope.

A payment made by ecclesiastical institutions to the Papacy.

Priests sent to England by the Papacy.

Monasteries

Correct!

Wrong! Annates were a payment made by ecclesiastical institutions to the Papacy.

Q6) In 1534, an act abolishing an annual tax paid by householders to Rome was passed. This tax was known as....

Peter's Pence

Mary's Pence

Pope's Pence

St John's Pence

Correct!

Wrong! It was Peter's Pence.

Q7) In which year was the First Act of Supremacy passed, declaring Henry VIII to be the supreme head of the English Church?

1532

1535

1533

1534

Correct!

Wrong! It was in 1534.

Q8) True or false: Even though she united England with Rome once more, Mary retained the title of Supreme Head of the Church of England.

True

False

Correct!

Wrong!