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7WorldHist Ch 15 English Nation
7WorldHist Ch 15 English Nation
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1
Who won the Battle of Hastings?
Louis XIV, leading the French
Harold, leading the English
William, leading the Normans
William Wallace, leading the Scots
2
What structure did the Romans build to keep the Scots to the north and out of Roman Britain?
Hadrian's Wall
Wailing Wall
Berlin Wall
Great Wall of China
3
What speech did Elizabeth I give her troops before they defeated the Spanish Armada?
"Friends, Romans, countrymen..."
"Four score and seven years ago..."
"We band of brothers..."
"heart and stomach of a king"
4
What is England's representative government called?
Parliament
Great Council
Congress
Witan
5
What was the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle?
history of Britain
detailed census
document outlining laws
Bible translation
6
What kind of government did Oliver Cromwell run?
military dictatorship
democratic republic
7
What was the Wars of the Roses?
English fighting to keep French lands
Scottish Reformation
Henry VIII fighting to divorce Catherine of Aragon
Lancasters and Yorks fighting over English throne
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Who were the tribal people in Northern Scotland, name comes from "Pecht" meaning ancestors?
Vikings
Druids
Picts
Celts
9
Was Edward VI, son of Henry VIII, Catholic or Protestant?
Protestant
Catholic
10
Was Mary I (Bloody Mary), daughter of Henry VIII, Catholic or Protestant?
Catholic
Protestant
11
What was William the Conqueror's detailed census (for taxation) called?
Dead Sea Scrolls
Domesday Book
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
Magna Carta
12
Who was the crusader-king who only spoke French?
Ethelred the Unready
John
Edward the Confessor
Richard the Lion-Hearted
13
What was the main reason kings who didn't like Parliament called it to meet anyway?
to choose the next king
money for war
to get permission to marry
keep people happy
14
Who was the Elizabethan writer who wrote 38 plays and many sonnets?
Christopher Marlowe
William Shakespeare
Francios Moliere
Stephen Sondheim
15
Who were special Celtic men who were teachers, judges, and priests?
druids
roundheads
picts
hermits
16
What is the Tudor Rose?
Elizabeth I's attempt to appease Catholics
Anne Boleyn's favorite flower
combining houses of York and Lancaster
sign that Richard III killed his nephews
17
What is the Bayeux Tapestry?
map showing all of William's lands in France
tapestry depicting the face of Jesus before His resurrection
William winning England and Harold's death at Hastings
detailed census of England
18
Who ended the Wars of the Roses at the Battle of Bosworth Field?
Henry VIII left the Roman Catholic Church
Henry Tudor killed Richard III
Joan of Arc was burned at the stake
Martin Luther fled to Germany
19
Who is someone who rules for a monarch who is young or unable to rule alone?
protector
heir
consort
regent
20
Who commissioned the King James Version of the Bible?
James I
Elizabeth I
Charles I
Mary II
21
Is "United Kingdom" a political or geographic term?
geographic
political
22
Who signed the Magna Carta?
Oliver Cromwell
Bloody Mary
Henry VIII
John
23
Which king dissolved Parliament and was executed for treason?
William of Orange
Charles I
Richard the Lion-Hearted
Henry VIII
24
Who were the Celts?
Boston's basketball team
conquerors who built Hadrian's Wall
seafaring people who plundered villages
one of the earliest people groups in Britain
25
Who did Mary of Guise want to replace with her Catholic daughter, Mary Queen of Scots?
Mary I
Henry VIII
James II
Elizabeth I
26
What was Beowulf?
Henry VIII's favorite palace
one of Shakespeare's plays
Anglo-Saxon hero epic
Cromwell's army
27
Who were the two sides of the Hundred Years' War?
England and France
Yorks and Lancasters
Roundheads and Cavaliers
England and Scotland
28
Was Elizabeth I, daughter of Henry VIII, Catholic or Protestant?
Protestant
Catholic
29
How many legitimate kids did Henry VIII have when he died?
6
3
1
none
30
Who was the French teenage girl who led her army to a few victories?
Bloody Mary
Joan of Arc
Jane Grey
Matilda
31
Where was Alfred the Great king before he united England and fought off Vikings?
Scotland
Northumbria
Ireland
Wessex
32
Why was James II taken off the throne?
he was illegitimate
William and Mary conquered all of England
he and his son were Catholic
he and his son were Protestant
33
What did Henry VIII start because he wanted a divorce?
Spanish Inquisition
English Reformation
Catholic Purification
Hundred Years' War
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What did Henry VIII desperately want?
to turn all of England Protestant
to have a poem about beheadings
male heir
to be pope
