The Break with Rome Quiz

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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