When I worked in Rare Books a couple of years ago I found a late 17th-century history book with study questions much like those, though they were just for personal enlightenment (heh) rather than academic questions, since English history was not, of course, an academic subject yet. The questions in that one were things like "Was Henry VI a better Christian than king? Discuss" and "Who was worse, Edward II for carrying on with his good-for-nothing boyfriends, or Isabella for arranging for Edward to get a poker up the arse?" It's probably on EEBO; I need to track it down again.
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When I worked in Rare Books a couple of years ago I found a late 17th-century history book with study questions much like those, though they were just for personal enlightenment (heh) rather than academic questions, since English history was not, of course, an academic subject yet. The questions in that one were things like "Was Henry VI a better Christian than king? Discuss" and "Who was worse, Edward II for carrying on with his good-for-nothing boyfriends, or Isabella for arranging for Edward to get a poker up the arse?" It's probably on EEBO; I need to track it down again.