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William Paget

Today's Sunday quiz is on William Paget, 1st Baron Paget, a man who served Henry VIII, Edward VI and Mary I. How much do you know about this Tudor man? Find out! Good luck!

William Paget Quiz

Q1) William Paget attended St. Paul's School, which of the following was NOT one of his contemporaries?

Anthony Denny

Edward North

Edward Seymour

Thomas Wriothesley

Q2) Where did Paget attend after St Paul's?

Jesus College, Cambridge

Trinity Hall, Cambridge

Corpus Christi College, Oxford

Christ Church College, Oxford

Q3) True or false: William Paget suffered an attack of sweating sickness in 1531?

True

False

Q4) In 1530, William Paget travelled to the University of Paris to solicit opinions on Henry VIII's marriage. Which of the following men (choose one) did not join him?

Francis Bryan

Edward Foxe

Edmund Bonner

Reginald Pole

Q5) Prior to the death of Henry VIII, Paget is known to have had a discussion with this man in the gallery about the future of England.

John Dudley

Thomas Seymour

Stephen Gardiner

Edward Seymour

Q6) While attending Trinity Hall together, Stephen Gardiner, Paget and Wriothesley performed Plautus' "Miles gloriosus", which character did Paget play?

Lurcio

Meliphidippa

Palestrio

Artotrogus

Q7) After Thomas Cromwell was executed in 1540, Paget was appointed to this position...

Lord Privy Seal

Chancellor

Clerk of the Privy Council

Page to the King

Q8) True or false: Paget was instrumental in the negotiations for Lady Mary to marry the Duc d'Orléans?

True

False

Q9) In which year did William Paget die?

1548

1560

1558

1563

Q10) True or false: He served Mary I as her Lord Privy Seal?

True

False

Quiz by Rebecca Larson.

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William Paget