Chapter 1 Quiz, Part 2: The political and social role of the church

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The Church in c.1529

1. The Church in England collected Church taxes, with some of the money going to Rome. About how much money, per year, did Rome receive in taxation and religious fees in the 1520s? *

1 point

C. £3,500 per annum

C. £4,000 per annum

C. £4,500 per annum

C. £5,000 per annum

C. £5,500 per annum

C. £6,000 per annum

C. £6,500 per annum

C. £7,000 per annum

2. The most significant Church tax was where a tenth of every person’s income (what they produced or earned) had to be paid to the Church on an annual basis. What was the name of this tax? *

1 point

The tithe

Monopolies

Indulgences

Ecclesiastical rates

Annates

Customs duties

Poll tax

Peter's Pence

3. Fines could be given by the Church courts for what transgressions? (Choose TWO). *

2 points

Eating snacks during Mass

Non-attendance at Church

Translating the bible into the vernacular

Breaking the Ten Commandments

Selling indulgences

Praying at the tomb of a saint

Selling holy relics

Failing to go on a pilgrimage

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4. What term describes an act or holding beliefs that are against the established doctrine (in this case, in 1529, against the doctrine of the Church in Rome) *

1 point

In Mitius

Malum Prohibitum

Habeas Corpus

Crimen falsi

Debellatio

Salvio hexia

Heresy

Onus Probandi

5. In parish churches, a screen would have been used to divide areas where the laity (ordinary people) could go, and the area reserved for the choir and clergy. What was the main focus inside the church for both clergy and laity? *

1 point

The vestry

The lecturn

The nave

The apse

The transept

The sanctuary

The high altar

The font

6. Masses were said for souls of the dead. Wealthy people sometimes had their own part of the church for masses to be said for their souls. What were these memorials called? *

1 point

Summer chapels

Chantry chapels

Chapels of ease

Chapel oratories

Proprietary chapels

Wayside chapels

Lady chapels

Non-conformist chapels

The Monasteries in c.1529

7. Most parishes were less than how many miles from a monastery or a priory? *

1 point

1 mile

2 miles

3 miles

4 miles

5 miles

6 miles

7 miles

8 miles

8. Around how many abbeys, priories and nunneries were there in 1509, when Henry VIII became king? *

1 point

600

650

700

750

800

850

900

950

9. How did monks help the communities nearby? (Choose THREE ways) *

3 points

Weaving and sewing clothing

Preaching in nearby churches

Advised on pastoral and arable farming methods

Education to the sons of the nobility and gentry

Kept the accounts of the wealthy and higher clergymen

Production of food / employed people in agriculture

Ran the printing presses for Johannes Gutenberg

Elementary health care for the sick

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10. Monasteries were extremely wealthy, with great economic and political power and extensive possessions by the sixteenth century. What gifts would the nobility and gentry give to monasteries? (Choose TWO) *

2 points

Food

Land

Stone

Silver and gold

Iron ore

Horses

Books

Wool

Required

11. Why would a wealthy person give such gifts to monasteries? *

1 point

So they would say prayers for them when they died

So the monasteries could look after the poor and the sick

So the monks could grow food

So the priests could afford more bibles and books of common prayer

12. Monasteries were producers of what by the early 1500s? (Choose TWO) *

2 points

Stone

Wool

Sugar

Cotton

Iron

Steel

Honey

Timber

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