Henry VIII - Church Reform

Question 1

If you are a ‘humanist’ are you anti-Catholic?

Answer 1

No

Question 2

Examples of Humanist schools (Henry VIII)

Answer 2

• St Paul’s (London)
• Magdalen’s College School (Oxford)
• Corpus Christi College (Oxford)
• Cardinal College (Oxford)
• St John’s College (Cambridge)

Question 3

Which culture did Humanists take influence from?

Answer 3

Ancient Greece & Rome

Question 4

Who saw himself as a promoter of Humanism? (Henry VIII)

Answer 4

Henry VIII

Question 5

The most important humanist writer (Henry VIII)

Answer 5

Thomas More

Question 6

Which three tombs did Henry VIII commission in a renaissance style?

Answer 6

• Henry VII
• Elizabeth of York
• Margaret Beaufort

Question 7

Which three people engineered church reform? (Henry VIII)

Answer 7

• Henry VIII
• Cromwell
• Thomas Cranmer

Question 8

Key example of corruption in the church (Henry VIII)

Answer 8

Wolsey

Question 9

Define ‘anticlericalism’

Answer 9

Opposition to church law

Question 10

Case study for anticlericalism (Henry VIII)

Answer 10

death of Richard Hunne

Question 11

When did Richard Hunne die? (Henry VIII)

Answer 11

1514

Question 12

Rumour surrounding Richard Hunne’s death? (Henry VIII)

Answer 12

Murdered by the Church, made to look like a suicide

Question 13

How many religious houses did Wolsey dissolve in 1520’s?

Answer 13

20

Question 14

What was the ‘Supplication of the Beggars’? (Henry VIII)

Answer 14

Literature that emphasised corruption of the Church

Question 15

What were the three Church weaknesses? (Henry VIII)

Answer 15

• Corruption
• Anticlericalism
• Declining Monasticism

Question 16

What was the Act of Supremacy?

Answer 16

Made the monarch Supreme Head of the Church of England

Question 17

When was the Act of Supremacy? (Henry VIII)

Answer 17

1534

Question 18

Why were six new dioceses made? (Henry VIII)

Answer 18

Improve administration

Question 19

What was the Valor Ecclesiasticus? (Henry VIII)

Answer 19

Survey of Church wealth

Question 20

When was the Valor Ecclesiasticus conducted? (Henry VIII)

Answer 20

1535

Question 21

When was the Act to Dissolve the Smaller Monasteries? (Henry VIII)

Answer 21

1536

Question 22

When was the Act to Dissolve the Remaining Monasteries? (Henry VIII)

Answer 22

1539

Question 23

When was the Act to Dissolve All Religious Houses? (Henry VIII)

Answer 23

1540

Question 24

What qualified as a ‘smaller monastery’? (Henry VIII)

Answer 24

Income under £200 per annum

Question 25

Who passed the Dissolution of the Monasteries? (Henry VIII)

Answer 25

Parliament

Question 26

What did the 1536 Royal Injunctions do? (Henry VIII)

Answer 26

• Reduced Holy days
• Discouraged pilgrimages

Question 27

What did the 1538 Royal Injunctions do? (Henry VIII)

Answer 27

• Pilgrimages condemned
• Veneration of relics condemned
• Clergy who supported relics/pilgrimages declared heretics
• Every church required English Bible

Question 28

When was Great Bible published? (Henry VIII)

Answer 28

1539

Question 29

Who was on front cover of Great Bible? (Henry VIII)

Answer 29

• Henry VIII
• Cromwell
• Cranmer

Question 30

Date of The Act for the Advancement of the True Religion? (Henry VIII)

Answer 30

1543

Question 31

Purpose of The Act for the Advancement of the True Religion? (Henry VIII)

Answer 31

Only upper-class allowed to read the Bible

Question 32

Date of Ten Articles (Henry VIII)

Answer 32

1536

Question 33

What were the Ten Articles? (Henry VIII)

Answer 33

Reduced Sacraments to three:

• Baptism
• Penance
• Eucharist

Question 34

Date of Bishops Book? (Henry VIII)

Answer 34

1537

Question 35

What was the Bishops Book? (Henry VIII)

Answer 35

Restored sacraments removed by Ten Articles, but not as important

Question 36

Date of Six Articles (Henry VIII)

Answer 36

1539

Question 37

What were the Six Articles? (Henry VIII)

Answer 37

Restored all Catholic doctrine (All sacraments equal)

Question 38

Date of the Kings Book (Henry VIII)

Answer 38

1543

Question 39

What was the Kings Book? (Henry VIII)

Answer 39

Revised version of Bishops Book (Catholic)

Question 40

On his deathbed, what did Henry VIII do?

Answer 40

Converted to Catholicism