Medieval and Tudor Education Quiz

Q1) At what age was it believed that children became capable of committing a mortal sin?

5

6

7

8

Q2) Which Tudor scholar wrote "love is fitter than fear, gentleness better than beating, to bring up a child rightly in learning", as opposed to advising corporal punishment.

Roger Ascham

John Cheke

Thomas More

William Cecil

Q3) In his "The Boke named the Gouernor", which was published in 1531, Sir Thomas Elyot compared the education of the children of noblemen to the "policie" of a ..........

Shepherd

Fisherman

Cook

Gardener

Q4) What was viewed as a pre-requisite of social success?

Good manners

Being born into a noble family

Knowing Latin

Q5) How many universities were there in Tudor England?

5

4

3

2

Q6) What did children learn straight after their ABC?

Nursery Rhymes

The Ten Commandments

The Lord's Prayer

The Creed

Q7) What did a child do before reciting the alphabet?

Do the sign of the cross

Kneel

Clap a rhythm

Say the Ave

Q8) Tudor children learned their alphabets using tablets covered with a transparent sheet of .....

Animal skin

Bone

Onion skin

Horn

Q9) In the 13th century, Odo Cheriton viewed the children's tablet as an illustration of .........

The crucifixion of Christ

The birth of mankind

The Bible

Pentecost

Q10) What did Henry VIII publish in 1545 to standardise education?

A national curriculum

A set of rules for every school to pin up

A primer, or first reading book

A collection of nursery rhymes and stories