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Edward VI – True or false quiz

This week's Sunday quiz tests your knowledge of the third Tudor monarch, the boy-king Edward VI.

How much do you know about him? Find out with this fun quiz. Good luck!

Edward VI - True or false?

Q1) True or false: Edward was born on the Feast of St Edward?

True

False

Q2) True or false: Edward was nine when he became king?

True

False

Q3) True or false: Edward was helped by a regency council led by his uncle, Thomas Seymour, and then John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland?

True

False

Q4) True or false: Edward was born at Hampton Court Palace?

True

False

Q5) True or false: His half-sister Mary was his godmother?

True

False

Q6) True or false: At the age of four, he came down with smallpox?

True

False

Q7) True or false: The Rough Wooing was a war caused by Edward's father, Henry VIII, wanting Edward to marry Mary, Queen of Scots?

True

False

Q8) True or false: Edward VI's principal secretaries were William Cecil and John Cheke?

True

False

Q9) True or false: In 1551, Edward became betrothed to Elisabeth of Valois?

True

False

Q10) True or false: Archbishop Cranmer described Edward as a second "Jeremiah"?

True

False

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Edward VI – True or false quiz