Questions › Chapter 3: A long and illustrious history
What was the Reformation?
- AA Europe-wide movement against the Pope's authorityRight answer
- BA plan to bring England back to Catholicism
- CA reform of the legal system in Wales
- DA rebellion of Irish chieftains against English law
Answer: A Europe-wide movement against the Pope's authority
The Reformation spread across Europe and challenged the authority, ideas and practices of the Pope and the Roman Catholic Church. Its followers, the Protestants, set up their own churches.
From chapter 3 of the handbook, "A long and illustrious history", section "The Tudors and Stuarts". Practice question 95 of 651, written in our own words.