Question

Match each English monarch to the religious policy he or she adopted.

Mary I
Henry VIII
Edward VI

declared the English monarch Supreme Head of the Church

made England a purely Protestant nation

restored Catholicism in England

Answer 1

Mary I - Restored Catholicism in England.

Henry VIII - Declared the English monarch Supreme Head of the Church.

Edward VI - Made England a purely Protestant nation.

Answer 2

The correct answers matching each English monarch to the religious policy he or she adopted are the following:

- Mary I restored Catholicism in England. Mary Tudor was a devoted Catholic who thought unless Catholicism was instaurated in England, all her subjects would go to Hell.

- Henry VIII declared the English monarch Supreme Head of the Church. This was a title created by him for himself in 1531 when he began the separation of the Church of England from the Holy See and theauthority of the Pope.

- Edward VI made England a purely Protestant nation. Under his short reign (1547-1553), Catholic bright clothes and rituals were substituted by more plain ones that the common folks could understand. There were major reforms to separate from the splendor and ostentation associated with the Catholic Church in protest against its wealth and corruption.