Lesson Y7-U06-L02

Y7-U06-L02 Henry VIII's Break with Rome Quiz: KS3 History, Unit 6

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Lesson Y7-U06-L02, Henry VIII's Break with Rome: 20 multiple choice questions for the KS3 History (National Curriculum), Unit 6: Year 7: The Tudors, written with Revision Ninja.

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The 20 questions

  1. What did Henry VIII want the Pope to grant him in the 1520s?

    • A ruling that England no longer needed bishops
    • A new title giving him control of the city of Rome
    • Permission to invade France with papal troops
    • An annulment of his marriage to Catherine of Aragon

  2. Why did the Pope refuse to annul Henry VIII's marriage?

    • Catherine's nephew, Emperor Charles V, had the Pope under his control in Rome
    • Catherine had promised the Pope she would enter a convent
    • The Pope believed Anne Boleyn was a heretic and unfit to marry
    • Henry had already been excommunicated by the Pope's own cardinals

  3. Which 1534 law made Henry VIII 'Supreme Head of the Church of England'?

    • The Act in Restraint of Appeals
    • The Act of Uniformity
    • The Treason Act
    • The Act of Supremacy

  4. Which minister used Parliament to pass the laws that broke England away from Rome?

    • Thomas Cranmer
    • Thomas Cromwell
    • Cardinal Wolsey
    • Thomas More

  5. What is an annulment?

    • A ruling that a marriage was never legally valid in the first place
    • A ceremony in which the Pope crowned a king and confirmed his right to rule the country
    • A law that declared a monarch's children illegitimate and barred them from the throne
    • A formal divorce that ended a valid marriage so that both partners could remarry

  6. What was a monastery in medieval England?

    • A school run only for the children of wealthy nobles
    • A royal court where the king's ministers met to make laws
    • A local court that judged disputes about church land
    • A community of monks or nuns who lived, worked and prayed together

  7. What does 'dissolution of the monasteries' mean?

    • Allowing monks and nuns to marry, have families and leave their communities behind
    • Sending the monks of England to fight for the Pope's armies in Italy
    • Rebuilding the monasteries that had fallen into ruin after the Black Death of 1348
    • Closing the monasteries and taking their land and wealth for the Crown

  8. Roughly how many monasteries and convents were there in England around 1530?

    • About 80,000
    • About 8,000
    • About 800
    • About 80

  9. Roughly what share of England's land did the Church and monasteries own before the dissolution?

    • About a quarter
    • About a half
    • About a tenth
    • About nine-tenths

  10. Which 1533 law banned English legal cases from being appealed to the Pope in Rome?

    • Act of Uniformity (1549), which imposed the first English Book of Common Prayer
    • Treason Act (1534), which made denying the king's headship a capital crime
    • Act of Supremacy (1534), which made the king Supreme Head of the Church of England
    • Act in Restraint of Appeals (1533)

  11. A man in 1535 wants to appeal an English court's decision to the Pope. Under the Act in Restraint of Appeals, what happens?

    • The appeal must be heard in England, not in Rome
    • The man is sent to London to be executed for his views
    • The appeal is sent to Rome, as it always had been
    • The case is passed to Emperor Charles V for a ruling

  12. Which 1534 law made it treason to deny that Henry VIII was Head of the Church?

    • Act of Supremacy
    • Poor Relief Act
    • Act in Restraint of Appeals
    • Treason Act

  13. In 1534, did most English church services suddenly change?

    • No, mostly only who was in charge changed; services stayed largely Catholic
    • No, the Pope regained full control of England's churches, bishops and parish priests
    • Yes, all services were switched to English within a week of the new laws passing
    • Yes, every saint's image and altar was removed from churches across the whole country

  14. A village monastery in 1536 ran a school, fed travellers and prayed for the dead. What would its closure most directly take away?

    • Taxes the village paid to the Pope in Rome each year for the upkeep of the church
    • Schools, food and shelter for the poor and travellers
    • Royal permission to hold a weekly market and an annual fair in the village square
    • The village's right to elect its own mayor and to hold local courts of justice

  15. Why was closing the monasteries so attractive to Henry VIII's government?

    • Power: monks were refusing to pay taxes to the king
    • Money: the Crown was nearly broke and the monasteries were very rich
    • Land: the king wanted to give monks new estates
    • Religion: the king wanted to reform prayer for the dead

  16. Source A was written by Richard Layton, one of Cromwell's inspectors. What is the main reason to doubt it?

    • He was a monk who had lived in a monastery for forty years and resented its closure
    • He wrote the report only after all the monasteries had closed in 1540 and the land was sold
    • He was a foreign diplomat with no knowledge of England, its laws or its church
    • He was sent to find reasons to close the monasteries, so he may have exaggerated

  17. Robert Aske led the Pilgrimage of Grace in 1536. What was he mainly defending?

    • Henry's right to marry Anne Boleyn without the approval of the Pope or the nobles
    • The right of the Pope to appoint English kings and to rule over the English Parliament
    • The monasteries, which he saw as vital for charity and schooling in the north
    • The rights of Scottish lords who had held land in the north of England for centuries

  18. Why did selling monastery land to nobles make the changes of the Reformation hard to reverse?

    • Nobles who bought the land had a strong reason to resist giving it back
    • The Pope had promised nobles they could keep the land forever
    • The land was too damaged by fighting to return to monks
    • Parliament had banned the return of any land to the Church

  19. Why could Queen Mary I restore the Pope's power in England, but not the monasteries' land?

    • The Pope's power had been lost in battle, while the monasteries' land had never been sold to anyone
    • The Pope's power was a matter of law, while sold land was held by people who would fight to keep it
    • Parliament had already returned the Pope's power to Rome, but it had not yet returned the monastic land
    • Mary was Catholic, so she could return the land to the monks but could not restore the Pope's authority

  20. Why was the break with Rome carried out through Acts of Parliament, and what did this make the change feel like?

    • Laws made the break look legal and permanent, so it was harder to reverse than an order alone
    • Acts of Parliament applied only to London and not to the rest of England
    • Laws could be made only by the Pope, so Parliament needed his permission
    • Parliament could only pass laws about trade, so bishops ran the Reformation

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