Religious Persecutions Quiz - The Tudor Society

Not a very nice subject, but I do hope you enjoy testing your knowledge in the religious persecutions and executions of the Tudor era.

Religious Persecutions and Executions

Q1) Between 1535 and 1536 eighteen monks were executed for refusing to accept Henry VIII as supreme head of the church in England. Which order were they from?

Franciscan

Dominican

Benedictine

Carthusian

Correct!

Wrong! They were Carthusian monks.

Q2) In what year was Anne Askew, the Protestant martyr, burned at the stake for heresy?

1546

1543

1544

1537

Correct!

Wrong! It was in 1546.

Q3) Joan Bocher was burned at the stake in Edward VI's reign for her ...... beliefs

Lollard

Catholic

Anabaptist

Lutheran

Correct! The wording from her sentence was: "You believe that the Word was made flesh in the virgin, but that Christ took flesh of the virgin you believe not; because the flesh of the virgin being the outward man sinfully gotten, and born in sin, but the Word by the consent of the inward man of the virgin was made flesh. This dogma, with obstinate, obdurate, and pertinacious mind, you affirm, and not without much haughtiness of mien. With wonderful blindness of heart, to this you hold; therefore, for your demerits, obstinacy, and contumacy, aggravated by a wicked and damnable pertinacity, being also unwilling to return to the faith of the church, you are, adjudged a heretic, to be handed to the secular power, to suffer in due course of law, and finally the ban of the great excommunication is upon you."

Wrong! For her Anabaptist beliefs. The wording from her sentence was: "You believe that the Word was made flesh in the virgin, but that Christ took flesh of the virgin you believe not; because the flesh of the virgin being the outward man sinfully gotten, and born in sin, but the Word by the consent of the inward man of the virgin was made flesh. This dogma, with obstinate, obdurate, and pertinacious mind, you affirm, and not without much haughtiness of mien. With wonderful blindness of heart, to this you hold; therefore, for your demerits, obstinacy, and contumacy, aggravated by a wicked and damnable pertinacity, being also unwilling to return to the faith of the church, you are, adjudged a heretic, to be handed to the secular power, to suffer in due course of law, and finally the ban of the great excommunication is upon you."

Q4) Who was the first Protestant martyr of Mary I's reign?

Rowland Taylor

John Hooper

Lawrence Saunders

John Rogers

Correct! He was burned at the stake on 4th February 1555.

Wrong! It was John Rogers. He was burned at the stake on 4th February 1555.

Q5) Hugh Latimer, Nicholas Ridley and Thomas Cranmer are called "The ..... Martyrs".

Oxford

Canterbury

Windsor

Dartford

Correct! Latimer and Ridley were burned on 16th October 1555 and Cranmer was burned on 21st March 1556.

Wrong! They were The Oxford Martyrs. Latimer and Ridley were burned in Oxford on 16th October 1555 and Cranmer was burned there on 21st March 1556.

Q6) What event in February 1570 led to Elizabeth I's government taking steps against Catholicism in England?

The Rising of the North

The Ridolfi Plot

The Babington Plot

The excommunication of Elizabeth I

Correct! Pope Pius V also called on Catholics to rebel against the Queen.

Wrong! It was Pope Pius V's excommunication of Elizabeth and his call on Catholics to rebel against her.

Q7) Where was Reformer and Bible translator William Tyndale executed in 1536?

Antwerp

Vilvoorde

Brussels

London

Correct!

Wrong! He was executed in Vilvoorde.

Q8) Which place in London was the location of many of the burnings of Mary I's reign?

Tyburn

Cheapside

Smithfield

Tower Hill

Correct, although Stratford-atte-Bow saw many burnings in June 1556.

Wrong! It was Smithfield.

Q9) Elizabeth Barton, the Holy Maid of Kent and a Benedictine nun, was executed on 20 April 1534 after she had prophesied against the marriage of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn. How was she killed?

She was beheaded.

She was boiled.

She was burned at the stake.

She was hanged.

Correct! She was hanged at Tyburn.

Wrong! She was hanged at Tyburn.

Q10) Which martyr said that s/he would put his/her hand in the flame first to punish it for signing his/her recantation?

Thomas Cranmer

William Tyndale

Anne Askew

Hugh Latimer

Correct!

Wrong! It was Thomas Cranmer.

Q11) Pilgrimage of Grace leader Robert Aske was executed by being hanged in chains in July 1537. What was his occupation?

Mercer

Blacksmith

Goldsmith

Lawyer

Correct!

Wrong! He was a laywer.

Q12) Catholic martyr Margaret Clitherow was pressed to death in which English city?

Canterbury

York

Bristol

Oxford

Correct! She was pressed to death in the Toll Booth on the Ouse Bridge.

Wrong! She was pressed to death in the Toll Booth on the Ouse Bridge in York.

Q13) Protestant martyr John Lascelles was executed in July 1546 with Anne Askew, but whose downfall had he been involved in by providing evidence to the Crown?

Anne Boleyn

Thomas Cromwell

Catherine Howard

Cardinal Wolsey

Correct! His sister Mary Hall had been in the Dowager Duchess of Norfolk's household with Catherine and had shared with her brother details of Catherine's sexual history.

Wrong! It was Catherine Howard. His sister Mary Hall had been in the Dowager Duchess of Norfolk's household with Catherine and had shared with her brother details of Catherine's sexual history.

Q14) Catholic John Fisher, who was executed in 1535 for denying Henry VIII's supremacy, was Bishop of which city?

Winchester

Rochester

London

Worcester

Correct!

Wrong! It was Rochester.