Anne Boleyn - the early years
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To celebrate a month Anne and the Scandal of Christendom debate, there are a coupe of quizzes here for you to test your knowledge and skill. This first is about Mistress Anne as it were – Anne before she was married.
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Question 1 of 10
1. Question
4 pointsIt is said that Anne still walks the earth in despair, head in her hands (sorry, pun), unwilling to let go. At which of these locations, so important to her life, has Anne’s ghost apparently been spotted?
You can select multiple correct answers on this one by the way.
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Anne is one of the best travelled ghosts in England as it happens – a product maybe of her turbulent life. Blickling is probably where she was born in (probably) 1500/1 and her ghost is said to appear on May 19th every year. I’ll let you guess why 19th May. As it happens, Blickling is a ghostly place – Thomas Boleyn appears too, though only fleetingly – he’s trying to cross 12 bridges before cockcrow. Plus Falstaff, and Sir Henry Hobart. Golly. Natalie Grueninger does a good summary at her website On the Tudor Trail
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Anne is one of the best travelled ghosts in England as it happens – a product maybe of her turbulent life. Blickling is probably where she was born in (probably) 1500/1 and her ghost is said to appear on May 19th every year. I’ll let you guess why 19th May. As it happens, Blickling is a ghostly place – Thomas Boleyn appears too, though only fleetingly – he’s trying to cross 12 bridges before cockcrow. Plus Falstaff, and Sir Henry Hobart. Golly. Natalie Grueninger does a good summary at her website On the Tudor Trail
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Question 2 of 10
2. Question
2 pointsThis brass inlay sits in the magnificent church of Salle in Norfolk.
It’s symbol of the pride of the son of yeoman farmer who, together with his wife, had succeeded in becoming a successful merchant, Mayor of London in 1457-1458, until he was knighted by Henry VI.
They had set their family on the path to fame and fortune.
What are the names of the happy couple?
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Salle is a magnificent church (if you like the airy glories of the perpendicular. Give me a bit of heavy, gloomy, oppressive Norman personally). It was the perfect place for Geoffrey and Alice to show their pride back in the parish that they had out grown. They had seven children, but the chip off the old block was William Boleyn (1451-1505). He was born at Blickling, but carried on the family business, and like his Dad became Mayor of London. He married Margaret Butler, and when Margaret’s father died, she became co-heiress to the Earl of Ormonde’s estates in Ireland.
William and Margaret had 10 children; his eldest was called Anne – and was our Anne’s Aunt, who married John Shelton and as Lady Shelton she would be the Princess Mary’s keeper – and reputedly a hard one. Their second son was Thomas Boleyn, who used his talents and those of his daughter to sit, for a while at the right hand of the king.
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Salle is a magnificent church (if you like the airy glories of the perpendicular. Give me a bit of heavy, gloomy, oppressive Norman personally). It was the perfect place for Geoffrey and Alice to show their pride back in the parish that they had out grown. They had seven children, but the chip off the old block was William Boleyn (1451-1505). He was born at Blickling, but carried on the family business, and like his Dad became Mayor of London. He married Margaret Butler, and when Margaret’s father died, she became co-heiress to the Earl of Ormonde’s estates in Ireland.
William and Margaret had 10 children; his eldest was called Anne – and was our Anne’s Aunt, who married John Shelton and as Lady Shelton she would be the Princess Mary’s keeper – and reputedly a hard one. Their second son was Thomas Boleyn, who used his talents and those of his daughter to sit, for a while at the right hand of the king.
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Question 3 of 10
3. Question
4 pointsIn his life of Wolsey, George Cavendish related how Anne Boleyn and Henry Percy fell in love and asked to be married; that the king ordered Wolsey to put a stop to it. Historians have argued back and forth about whether or not it was true that Henry was involved, have advanced evidence to argue that the story is wrong. Below is a list of arguments advanced; select the ones that suggest it is UNSAFE to suggest that Henry intervened to stop the marriage.
You can select multiple correct answers on this one by the way.
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You might also say, possibly with an edge, with some asperity, well look, who cares? The king had the right to decided which of his nobles married whom at the time, we can’t be concerned with all these ins and outs. Why is it important?
It’s important because it seems as though the marriage was stopped quit early in the 1520s; possibly as early as 1523, though the only certain date is that Percy married Mary Talbot in 1526. If the king did intervene as early and 1523-1524, it’s much easier to construct a narrative of Henry’s reign that his break with Rome was flawed and derived from ‘base’ motives. That Henry abjured the church because, as Cardinal Pole sneered:
“At your age in life and with all your experience of the world you were enslaved by your passion for a girl“.
Historians have gone back and forth, or simply noted in the end that we’ll never know for sure. In the end there are plenty of good reasons why else Wolsey would himself have stopped the marriage, and evidence that Henry’s father Northumberland did indeed rush to court, suggesting some crisis. But equally, Cavendish is a generally reliable witness, even if he wrote 30 years later, and it is credible.
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You might also say, possibly with an edge, with some asperity, well look, who cares? The king had the right to decided which of his nobles married whom at the time, we can’t be concerned with all these ins and outs. Why is it important?
It’s important because it seems as though the marriage was stopped quit early in the 1520s; possibly as early as 1523, though the only certain date is that Percy married Mary Talbot in 1526. If the king did intervene as early and 1523-1524, it’s much easier to construct a narrative of Henry’s reign that his break with Rome was flawed and derived from ‘base’ motives. That Henry abjured the church because, as Cardinal Pole sneered:
“At your age in life and with all your experience of the world you were enslaved by your passion for a girl“.
Historians have gone back and forth, or simply noted in the end that we’ll never know for sure. In the end there are plenty of good reasons why else Wolsey would himself have stopped the marriage, and evidence that Henry’s father Northumberland did indeed rush to court, suggesting some crisis. But equally, Cavendish is a generally reliable witness, even if he wrote 30 years later, and it is credible.
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Question 4 of 10
4. Question
6 pointsIn 1522 Anne appeared at the English court, taking part in a pageant. Anne played one of the courtly virtues; as did some of her contemporaries who would continue to play a part in her life. Match the person to the virtue. I recognise this is not a simple question – so fear not, you get2 points for placing Anne – but you can have a bonus point for each of the others you get right. (Before you write in, I’m aware that the picture is from an earlier of Henry’s joust by the way. Just trying to get the flavour, you know.)
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The Chateau Vert pageant was a good traditional example of the chivalric and courtly games Henry VIII loved so much – as did his father, Henry VII. In the game, Henry led 8 of his companions out into the field, representing the 8 male virtues of chivalry – Amorousness, Nobleness, Youth, Attendance, Loyalty, Pleasure, Gentleness and liberty. There, courtly vices (Danger, disdain, jealousy, unkindness, scorn, sharp tongue, strangeness) try to stop them getting at the 8 female virtues – Beauty, Honour, Perseverance, kindness, Constancy, Bounty, Mercy and Pity. I know, I don’t make this up.
Anyway, the blokes assault 8 castles, the vices try to fight them off with rose water and soft fruit, rarely effective against a knight in full armour it has to be said, though maybe they should have tried it Agincourt, but it doesn’t work here. The blokes save the virtues from the castles, and every one has a good dance. Read a bit more if you’d like at the Anne Boleyn Files.
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The Chateau Vert pageant was a good traditional example of the chivalric and courtly games Henry VIII loved so much – as did his father, Henry VII. In the game, Henry led 8 of his companions out into the field, representing the 8 male virtues of chivalry – Amorousness, Nobleness, Youth, Attendance, Loyalty, Pleasure, Gentleness and liberty. There, courtly vices (Danger, disdain, jealousy, unkindness, scorn, sharp tongue, strangeness) try to stop them getting at the 8 female virtues – Beauty, Honour, Perseverance, kindness, Constancy, Bounty, Mercy and Pity. I know, I don’t make this up.
Anyway, the blokes assault 8 castles, the vices try to fight them off with rose water and soft fruit, rarely effective against a knight in full armour it has to be said, though maybe they should have tried it Agincourt, but it doesn’t work here. The blokes save the virtues from the castles, and every one has a good dance. Read a bit more if you’d like at the Anne Boleyn Files.
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Question 5 of 10
5. Question
2 pointsAnne spent many years on the continent probably from the age of 13 until she returned to England for good probably in 1521. One of her mentors from those years wrote to her father and said:
“I find her so bright and pleasant for her young age that I am more beholden to you for sending her to me than you are to me”
Who was this author and mentor?
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A Venetian ambassador many years before had written with horror at the way the English nobility sent their young children off to other households, and concluded the English were cold and did not love their children. Obviously, it could have been that, but for many children however painful, it did indeed prepare them for the world in which they were expected to sing, dance, show their learning, culture, wit and intelligence. And at court they entered a snake pit where a false step could be disastrous for their hopes and their family’s fortunes.
Anne went to the leading courts of Europe, of both Margaret of Austria, Regent of the Netherlands, and Queen Claude, who often took her ladies to the Loire away from the philandering of her husband Francis I. The experience prepared Anne for court where her wit, culture and love of fashion set her apart and helped her attract attention – for good or ill.
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A Venetian ambassador many years before had written with horror at the way the English nobility sent their young children off to other households, and concluded the English were cold and did not love their children. Obviously, it could have been that, but for many children however painful, it did indeed prepare them for the world in which they were expected to sing, dance, show their learning, culture, wit and intelligence. And at court they entered a snake pit where a false step could be disastrous for their hopes and their family’s fortunes.
Anne went to the leading courts of Europe, of both Margaret of Austria, Regent of the Netherlands, and Queen Claude, who often took her ladies to the Loire away from the philandering of her husband Francis I. The experience prepared Anne for court where her wit, culture and love of fashion set her apart and helped her attract attention – for good or ill.
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Question 6 of 10
6. Question
2 points“What a zealous defender she was of Christ’s gospel all the world doth know, and her acts do and will declare to the world’s end”
So wrote John Foxe, whose occupation is listed by most historians as ‘martyrologist’, and author of the Actes and Monuments of these Latter and Perillous Days, Touching Matters of the Church – commonly known as the Book of Martyrs.
Anne is supposed to have encouraged Henry to break with Rome by pressing into his hot, pudgy hands a book by Simon Fish, a vicious and furious diatribe against the condition of the church. Complete the title of the book below.
- Supplication of the (Beggars, beggars)
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Anne was reputed to have pressed two books into Henry’s hands; the other was by William Tyndale, called The Obedience of a Christian Man. It asserted two key principles of the English evangelicals – the supreme authority of scripture in the church, and the supreme authority of the king in the state. Henry was as pleased as Punch. In fact even happier, since in my experience Punch is often a bit grumpy, what with that stick and all.
He was delighted with Supplication of the Beggars too, and remarked ‘This is a book for me and all kings to read’. Supplication of the Beggars was an effective piece of writing, and was widely circulated, and has been found in surviving inventories of people at all levels of society, not just the great and the good. It was only 5,000 words long and took up only fourteen small pages and was written in straightforward language. It could be read in an hour and was easy to conceal as it was not published legally. It was also cheap enough to distribute free of charge.
There’s some dispute if it actually was Anne that gave it to Henry – William Latymer tells a story of two merchants. But of her interest in the bible in English and Tyndale’s work there seems less doubt.
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Anne was reputed to have pressed two books into Henry’s hands; the other was by William Tyndale, called The Obedience of a Christian Man. It asserted two key principles of the English evangelicals – the supreme authority of scripture in the church, and the supreme authority of the king in the state. Henry was as pleased as Punch. In fact even happier, since in my experience Punch is often a bit grumpy, what with that stick and all.
He was delighted with Supplication of the Beggars too, and remarked ‘This is a book for me and all kings to read’. Supplication of the Beggars was an effective piece of writing, and was widely circulated, and has been found in surviving inventories of people at all levels of society, not just the great and the good. It was only 5,000 words long and took up only fourteen small pages and was written in straightforward language. It could be read in an hour and was easy to conceal as it was not published legally. It was also cheap enough to distribute free of charge.
There’s some dispute if it actually was Anne that gave it to Henry – William Latymer tells a story of two merchants. But of her interest in the bible in English and Tyndale’s work there seems less doubt.
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Question 7 of 10
7. Question
2 pointsThe following speech was reputedly delivered by Anne in September 1529.
“Nay, Sir,” quoth she, “besides all that, what things hath he wrought within this realm to your great slander and dishonour? There is never a nobleman within this realm that if he had done but half so much as he hath done, but he were well worthy to lose his head. “
Who was Anne talking about?
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The story told by George Cavendish about the incident at the Royal Palace of Grafton is something of a classic. It’s a very real and practical example of how faction might have worked. Wolsey was living on borrowed time after the failure of the legatine court; but he was a superb talker and once more seemed to be talking the king round.
In Cavendish’s version of events, Anne was desperate to see the back of Wolsey; she’d lost confidence that he really wanted to deliver the divorce from Catherine. The Dukes of Norfolk and Suffolk wanted him gone – he was an oik, and too rich for their liking, and they believed they themselves should rule. So Anne acted. The conversation took place at supper – but did not work. Henry spent the rest of the evening with Wolsey, talking hour after hour, and directing him to come back the following day.
But Anne knew her man. The following day she arranged a last minute day of hunting and when Wolsey returned Henry was gone. Wolsey was never to meet him again.
Is the story true? Cavendish had a reason for his history, to present Wolsey’s fall as the turn of fortune’s wheel; and other sources make no mention of Wolsey’s discomfiture. Probably it did not take place – but as an example of how courtiers fought to influence the prince it rings very true. For Members, there’s a shedcast on the events at Grafton Palace.
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The story told by George Cavendish about the incident at the Royal Palace of Grafton is something of a classic. It’s a very real and practical example of how faction might have worked. Wolsey was living on borrowed time after the failure of the legatine court; but he was a superb talker and once more seemed to be talking the king round.
In Cavendish’s version of events, Anne was desperate to see the back of Wolsey; she’d lost confidence that he really wanted to deliver the divorce from Catherine. The Dukes of Norfolk and Suffolk wanted him gone – he was an oik, and too rich for their liking, and they believed they themselves should rule. So Anne acted. The conversation took place at supper – but did not work. Henry spent the rest of the evening with Wolsey, talking hour after hour, and directing him to come back the following day.
But Anne knew her man. The following day she arranged a last minute day of hunting and when Wolsey returned Henry was gone. Wolsey was never to meet him again.
Is the story true? Cavendish had a reason for his history, to present Wolsey’s fall as the turn of fortune’s wheel; and other sources make no mention of Wolsey’s discomfiture. Probably it did not take place – but as an example of how courtiers fought to influence the prince it rings very true. For Members, there’s a shedcast on the events at Grafton Palace.
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Question 8 of 10
8. Question
2 pointsIt’s a day in court, and Henry was playing bowls with one of his courtiers, Thomas Wyatt. There’s a dispute about which bowl is closest.
The King points to the closest bowl and declares ‘It is mine’. On his finger is a ring given to him by Anne, his new squeeze, or so he hopes.
But Thomas is having none of it. He still claims his bowl is closer, and he takes out a ribbon with which to measure the distance.
Before he could finish, the king had stormed off.
Why?
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Thomas Wyatt was an unhappily married courtier and poet. His poetry gives tantalising glimpses that just maybe he had an affair with Anne. The balance of probabilities seems to lie against the idea, although they might well have been friends; if Anne was determined not to be the king’s mistress, it’s unlikely she’d have done so with Wyatt. A friend of mine used to say ‘who would break a fast by eating onions’, and then she’d cackle, in a dirty sort of way. I rather like onions actually. But you get the point?
Wyatt was a friend of Thomas Cromwell as well as the king, and however you account for the fall of Anne Boleyn, it was this friendship that saved his life. Wyatt was arrested, suspected of adultery with Anne, but released. He was to see Anne’s ‘lovers’ executed, and write a poem of the experience.
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Thomas Wyatt was an unhappily married courtier and poet. His poetry gives tantalising glimpses that just maybe he had an affair with Anne. The balance of probabilities seems to lie against the idea, although they might well have been friends; if Anne was determined not to be the king’s mistress, it’s unlikely she’d have done so with Wyatt. A friend of mine used to say ‘who would break a fast by eating onions’, and then she’d cackle, in a dirty sort of way. I rather like onions actually. But you get the point?
Wyatt was a friend of Thomas Cromwell as well as the king, and however you account for the fall of Anne Boleyn, it was this friendship that saved his life. Wyatt was arrested, suspected of adultery with Anne, but released. He was to see Anne’s ‘lovers’ executed, and write a poem of the experience.
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Question 9 of 10
9. Question
2 pointsAfter Wolsey fell from grace, his great palace of York Place was appropriated by the king.
Within days, Anne and Henry were round there like rats up a drain, and Anne was to move in.
By what name did the palace become known?
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Wolsey was ridiculously rich. He was both Bishop of Winchester – the richest diocese in England – and Archbishop of York, and held a number of different posts. Wolsey was the arch pluralist. His income was probably over £9,000 a year. He built prodigiously, and most famously he built the magnificent Hampton Court palace further up the Thames which Henry was also to turn into a royal palace., In fact it was a little embarrassing; Henry’s main residence was Bridewell, which as you can see was old, not terribly fashionable. It was on the Fleet River which was essentially an open sewer and as smelly as an old codpiece, and a long way from Westminster.
Henry and Anne toured round York Place together. It’s possible Anne may have dribbled slightly at the sight. It effectively became Anne’s palace – Catherine of Aragon, officially queen though she still was, had no rooms in it. Just Anne. Magnificent though it was, it still wasn’t enough;ll a lot of work was done, notably buying a bunch of adjacent houses, and knocking them down tyo make her a garden.
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Wolsey was ridiculously rich. He was both Bishop of Winchester – the richest diocese in England – and Archbishop of York, and held a number of different posts. Wolsey was the arch pluralist. His income was probably over £9,000 a year. He built prodigiously, and most famously he built the magnificent Hampton Court palace further up the Thames which Henry was also to turn into a royal palace., In fact it was a little embarrassing; Henry’s main residence was Bridewell, which as you can see was old, not terribly fashionable. It was on the Fleet River which was essentially an open sewer and as smelly as an old codpiece, and a long way from Westminster.
Henry and Anne toured round York Place together. It’s possible Anne may have dribbled slightly at the sight. It effectively became Anne’s palace – Catherine of Aragon, officially queen though she still was, had no rooms in it. Just Anne. Magnificent though it was, it still wasn’t enough;ll a lot of work was done, notably buying a bunch of adjacent houses, and knocking them down tyo make her a garden.
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Question 10 of 10
10. Question
6 pointsHenry and Anne’s relationship grew more public from 1530, and this coincided with the arrival of the Imperial Ambassador, Eustace Chapuys. Chapuys was a big supporter of Queen Catherine and the Princess Mary, and his reports of the goings on at court gave Anne a reputation for a sharp tongue.
Which of these quotations were attributed to Anne? You can select multiple correct answers on this one by the way.
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You have to feel for Anne. Before 1529, the relationship with Henry was at least still reasonably new, and both were probably quite confident that Wolsey’s efforts to secure a divorce would eventually be crowned with success. But from 1530, it was increasingly obvious that only the most extraordinary turn of events would lead to Anne becoming Henry’s wife. The prospect of a break with Rome was absolutely unthinkable to the vast majority of Henry’s subjects and courtiers – the violation of a thousand years of tradition, a hierarchy considered to be ordained by the Almighty.
Unlike Catherine, Anne had no Imperial Nephew to fight her corner, no royal pedigree to call on. She brought no diplomatic advantages, no big dowry, no alliances. All she had was the affection and love of the king.
We can’t know if these quotes are true or not, of if they were motivated by Chapuy’s malice. But if they are accurate it would surely not be surprising if from time to time Anne let her anxiety show.
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You have to feel for Anne. Before 1529, the relationship with Henry was at least still reasonably new, and both were probably quite confident that Wolsey’s efforts to secure a divorce would eventually be crowned with success. But from 1530, it was increasingly obvious that only the most extraordinary turn of events would lead to Anne becoming Henry’s wife. The prospect of a break with Rome was absolutely unthinkable to the vast majority of Henry’s subjects and courtiers – the violation of a thousand years of tradition, a hierarchy considered to be ordained by the Almighty.
Unlike Catherine, Anne had no Imperial Nephew to fight her corner, no royal pedigree to call on. She brought no diplomatic advantages, no big dowry, no alliances. All she had was the affection and love of the king.
We can’t know if these quotes are true or not, of if they were motivated by Chapuy’s malice. But if they are accurate it would surely not be surprising if from time to time Anne let her anxiety show.
Head very much hung in shame!!
seriously? Already? Can’t see a score actually…try again!
37%. Good grief. I got almost as much when I failed Latin deliberately at school.
Hmm. Might be that my assessment skills are not great and I am setting the grade boundaries too high. Incidentally, does anyone actually pass Latin given it’s clearly impossible?
Brilliant, can we blame you rather than ourselves? If so, I blame you!! I will have another go. I do think that maybe the multiple choice without it being clear in the rubric that one could pick more than one was tricky. If you like I could introduce you to my very severe colleague, Sue, who could tell you all about test validity, you’d have a ball!
You can! Yes, I used to work for Edexcel, and remember many happy (?) hours being taken through the finer points of standardisation, the requirement to be reliable, valid and fair and so on. Clearly, I was on the sales & marketing side so….but yes! good idea! I will go and add in a message.
Is the answer to question 2 correct? I was pretty sure that it was the last option.
Sorry David it mixes the questions up…can you remember the question ? But I can’t spot any wrong ‘uns…
That was fun, and hard! I loved the long explanations, not just a correct answer after. I noticed a small typo if you don’t mind me saying — Chapuys named mis-spelled at the end of the explanation of Anne’s quotes question. Thanks so much!
Thank you, it shall be corrected! Proof reading is not a skill. I get bored…!
37%. Im not this rubbish at History, really Im not. Those are really hard.
Sorry. (bwahaahaa haa)
This was definitely more challenging then I was expecting it to be, but it was fun.
Silly me, I didn’t realize that there were multiple correct answers. Did better the second time through.
Next time I’ll figure it out the multiple choice bit. I’m happy with a score just over half
Time to study harder.
It’s not about fun, Joe. Its about gum bleeding history, that’s what we are about here…
Great quiz! I feel proud about my 47%!
As you should!
Tough quiz, and I only just listened to the relevant episode this morning! (sorry, I got a bit behind — listened to 5 episodes in the last 2 days, and am still not caught up!) A minor suggestion: maybe you have no choice w/ the software you’re using, but it would make much more sense to report the median score (which satisfyingly enough just happens to be 50% right now) than the mean.
Hi Suzanne. I had to rush back to my textbooks to remind myself of the difference! I’m impressed at you calculation skills, and yes I can see that would be better…but sadly I have checked and it gives me no option.
Question 1, I could not really understand. Semantically, I read it as a double negative because of the word “UNSAFE”. The sentence wasn’t structured like a double negative but my brain refused to process it as anything but…
There was another question where I was confused about the title Supplication of the
Beggars. The one that I heard about “Supplication for the
Beggars” has a title that means something else. Fox was a pretty sarcastic fellow so I wasn’t sure if the some sort of unauthorized version of the said, sort of like Procopius’s secret history of Justian. Most of the questions I just guessed…my bad.
Should clarify something to my remarks about the book title, I thought preambling the question mentioning Fox could’ve been a clue about Fish’s treatise. As I said, question 1 “scrambled my brain”, that and perhaps I have watched too many BBC mystery TV series where nothing is at seems, except the last Sherlock Holmes series (and I don’t mean that as a compliment).
I am genuinely at a loss for words, which doesn’t happen often I have to tell you …my brain has joined yours in scrambled territory!
That was a toughie.
That was really hard. Maybe this will teach me to take notes!
Listened to all the podcasts and still only managed 46.88% – better than my first effort but not by much. Shameful.
There’s no shame here Jan! Just the pride of being a contender….!
Keeρ on writing, great job!
While I’m not exactly proud of my 53.13% score, I think I still did a pretty good job, especially since I haven’t listened to any of your podcasts yet! I’m especially excited to listen to the Tudor period, but I only just discovered them on iTunes. I had to check your Anne Boleyn web pages first because her life has always been truly fascinating to me. I wrote my undergraduate English Literature Honors thesis on the many literary, biographical, and film portrayals of Anne. I was always intrigued by the contrasting ways she was depicted and wondered about the historical context, motivation of the biographers, and how the publication time period (or year the films were released) affected each portrayal. I love that the quiz was very difficult and if I had taken it 3+ years ago, while I was researching my thesis, I think I would have done a lot better!