Tudor Literature Quiz - The Tudor Society

This week's quiz is about the books, poems and plays read and written by prominent Tudor people. Have fun!

Tudor Literature

Q1) Which Tudor person is said to have written the poem "on Monsieur's Departure"?

Lady Jane Grey

Penelope Devereux

Mary Howard

Elizabeth I

Correct! Elizabeth I is said to have written it when her suitor , François, Duke of Anjou and Alençon, left England.

Wrong! It is attributed to Elizabeth I, who is said to have written it when her suitor , François, Duke of Anjou and Alençon, left England.

Q2) Who wrote the treatise "The Defense of the Seven Sacraments" (Assertio Septem Sacramentorum)?

Henry VIII

Martin Luther

Thomas Cranmer

William Tyndale

Correct! Henry wrote it wrote it in response to Martin Luther's attack on the Catholic Church and was rewarded by the Pope with the title Fidei Defensor (Defender of the Faith) in October 1521.

Wrong! It was Henry VIII. He wrote it in response to Martin Luther's attack on the Catholic Church and was rewarded by the Pope with the title Fidei Defensor (Defender of the Faith) in October 1521.

Q3) The Education of a Christian Woman: A Sixteenth-Century Manual by Juan Luis Vives was dedicated to which Tudor woman?

Catherine of Aragon

Lady Jane Grey

Catherine Parr

Mary I

Correct! It was intended to be a model for Princess Mary's education, and also for other girls.

Wrong! It was dedicated to Mary I when she was princess and was intended to be a model for her education.

Q4) What was the subject of the book dedicated to Catherine Howard, Henry VIII's fifth wife, in 1540?

Religion

Fashion

Midwifery

Herbs and the kitchen garden

Correct! It was written by Richard Jonas and was called The Birth of Mankind.

Wrong! It was midwifery. It was written by Richard Jonas and was called The Birth of Mankind.

Q5) Who presented Anne Boleyn with beautifully illuminated manuscripts of evangelical works by Jacques Lefevre d’Etaples?

Henry VIII

George Boleyn, Lord Rochford

Henry Parker, Lord Morley

Thomas Cranmer

Correct!

Wrong! It was her brother, George Boleyn, Lord Rochford

Q6) Who wrote the religious work "Lamentations of a sinner"?

Margaret of Navarre

William Tyndale

Elizabeth I

Catherine Parr

Correct! It was written in 1547 and published in 1548.

Wrong! It was Catherine Parr, Henry VIII's sixth wife.

Q7) Elizabeth I translated the religious poem, The Mirror of the Sinful Soul, for her step-mother Catherine Parr. Who was it originally by?

Margaret of Navarre

Anne Boleyn

Jacques Lefevre d’Etaples

Chaucer

Correct!

Wrong! It was written by Margaret of Navarre, also known as Marguerite of Angoulême.

Q8) Which song was written by Henry VIII?

Whereto should I express?

Pastime with Good Company

Green Groweth the Holly

All of the above

Correct!

Wrong! They are all thought to have been written by Henry VIII.

Q9) What was the Devonshire Manuscript?

It was a collection of verses written by William Cavendish, 1st Earl of Devonshire

It was a collection of verses found in Francis Drake's home in Devon

It was a miscellany of verse compiled by Mary Shelton, Mary Howard and Margaret Douglas

It was a book written by Thomas Wyatt about his travels in Devon

Correct!

Wrong! It was a miscellany of verse compiled by Mary Shelton, Mary Howard and Margaret Douglas.

Q10) Which English poet wrote Astrophel and Stella?

Henry Howard

Thomas Wyatt

William Shakespeare

Philip Sidney

Correct! Penelope Devereux, sister of Robert Devereux, 2nd Ear of Essex, was thought to be his inspiration.

Wrong! It was Philip Sidney.

Q11) Which Shakespeare play features the characters Benedick and Beatrice?

As You Like It

Midsummer Night's Dream

Much Ado About Nothing

Measure for Measure

Correct!

Wrong! It is Much Ado about Nothing.

Q12) Who wrote the lines: And graven with diamonds in letters plain There is written, her fair neck round about: Noli me tangere, for Caesar's I am, And wild for to hold, though I seem tame.

Thomas Wyatt

George Boleyn

Henry Howard

Francis Bryan

Correct! They're from his poem "Whoso List to Hunt".

Wrong. It was Thomas Wyatt and they're from his poem "Whoso List to Hunt".

Q13) Which poem does John Harington, an author of literature in the sixteenth century, attribute to George Boleyn?

They flee from me

The Lover Complaineth the Unkindness of his Love

O Death, Rock me asleep

So Cruel Prison

Correct!

Wrong! It's The Lover Complaineth the Unkindness of his Love.

Q14) Who wrote the words "Le temps viendra" (the time will come) in a book of hours?

Elizabeth I

Lady Jane Grey

Catherine Brandon

Anne Boleyn

Correct! Anne wrote "Le temps viendra, Je Anne Boleyn" with a drawing of an astrolabe.

Wrong! It was Anne Boleyn. She wrote "Le temps viendra, Je Anne Boleyn" with a drawing of an astrolabe.