Part II History

I.         Multiple Choice

 

1.        Julius Caesar invaded Britain _____.

A. once                       B. twice                       C. three times

2.        King Arthur was the king of _____.

A. Picts                    B. Celts        C. Scots          D. Jutes

3.        The first “King of the English” was _____.

A. Alfred             B. Egbert           C. Bede                D. Ethelred

4.        Christianity was introduced into England in the late _____ century.

A. 14^th                        B. 8^th                           C. 6^th

5.        In 1653 _____ was made Lord Protector for life.

A. Oliver Cromwell     B. Charles I                 C. William II

6.        The three great Germanic tribes: the Anglos, the _____ and the Jutes which invaded Britain form the basis of the modern British people.

A. Saxons               B. Scots               C. Welsh              D. Wessex

7.        The head of the church in Anglo-Saxon times was _____.

A. the King of Denmark and Norway              B. the king of England

C. Julius Caesar                               D. the Archbishop of Canterbury

8.        The _____ invaded England in the earliest time.

A. Danes                     B. Iberians                   C. Romans                  D. Celts

9.        The Vikings who invaded England at the turn of the 8th century came from _____.

A. Norway                                                     B. Denmark

C. France                                                    D. both A and B

10.    Edward was known as the “_____” because of his reputation for saintliness.]

A. Confessor        B. Conqueror              C. Protector

11.    Norman Conquest began in _____.

A. 1016                      B. 1066                       C. 1035

12.    In history _____ was nicknamed “King of Lackland”.

A. John                       B. Henry I                   C. Henry II

13.    In 1181 Henry II issued the _____ which made it compulsory for every freeman in England to be provided with arms.

A. Inquest of Sheriffs   B. Assize of Arms   C. Doomsday Book

14.    Henry Plantagenet, in 1154, established the House of Angevin as _____.

A. Henry I                   B. Henry II                  C. Henry III

15.    Henry II appointed in 1162 _____ Archbishop of Canterbury.

A. Thomas Becket       B. Stephen Langton     C. Simon de Mortfort

16.    Charles I was beheaded in _____.

A. 1649                      B. 1648                       C. 1653

17.    It was _____ who summoned Model Parliament in 1295.

A. Edward I                B. Henry IV                C. Simon de Montfort

18.    The Great Charter contained _____ sets of provisions.

A. two                         B. four                         C. three

19.    The Peasants Uprising in 1381 was led by _____.

A. Henry Turner          B. Watt Tyler        C. Richard

20.    The English Church was strictly _____.

A. national                   B. international             C. regional

21.    The Glorious Revolution in 1688 was in nature a _____.

A. coup d’etat             B. racial slaughter C. peasant rising

22.    The Industrial Revolution laid a good foundation for the _____.

A. factory of the world          B. expansion of markets   C. social upheaval

23.    The American Revolution (the American War of Independence) broke out in _____ and ended in _____.

A. 1775, 1783            B. 1774, 1782             C. 1786, 1784

24.    The Battle of Hastings took place in _____.

A. 1606                      B. 1042                       C. 1066

25.    The Great Charter was signed by _____ in 1215.

A. King Henry II         B. King Richard           C. King John

26.    In the early 14th century feudalism began to _____ in England.

A. grow                  B. flourish             C. decline         D. end

27.    It was _____ who published the book “The Rights of Man”.

A. Thomas More         B. Thomas Paine         C. Thomas Jefferson

28.    The first Prime Minister was _____.

A. Wilminton        B. George Grenville     C. Robert Walpole

29.    The Parliament of 1265 which is known as the “_____” is considered the “beginning of parliament”.

A. All Estates Parliament           B. Model Parliament     C. Long Parliament

30.    The Anglo-French hostility which began in 1337 and ended in 1453 was known as _____.

A. the Wars of Roses             B. the Hundred Years’ War   C. Peasant Uprising

31.    In the first half of 17th century _____ grow rapidly in England.

A. feudalism                B. capitalism         C. Catholicism

32.    Prime Minister _____ resisted any reform that could be resisted.

A. Palmerston              B. Robert Peel             C. Gladstone

33.    By the end of the Hundred Years’ War only the port of _____ remained under English rule.

A. Troyes                    B. Gascon                   C. Calais

34.    In the 14th century took place the _____, the severest of many plagues in the middle ages.

A. Earthquake             B. Black Death            C. Drought

35.    _____ and his followers, known as Lollards, provided ideological preparation for the labour movement of the 14th century.

A. John Wycliffe          B. Watt Tyler        C. Somerset

36.    By the end of the Wars of the Roses the House of _____ began.

A. Tudor                     B. Lancaster                C. Plantagenet

37.    In the “_____” of 1388 five lords accused the King’s friends of treason under a very expansive definition of crime.

A. All Estates parliament             B. Merciless Parliament   C. Model Parliament

38.    In the Wars of the Roses the Lancastrians wire badges of _____ rose.

A. white                B. red                C. pink                   D. yellow

39.    The first Civil War in Britain lasted from _____ to _____.

A. 1600, 1604            B. 1640, 1644             C. 1642, 1646

40.    William Shakespeare is mainly a _____.

A. novelist                   B. dramatist                 C. poet

41.    In 1689 the “Bill of Rights” was passed. _____ began in England.

A. The Constitutional Monarchy               B. All Estates Parliament

C. House of Lancaster

42.    The _____ carried on trade relations with Russia and central Asian countries.

A. Moscow Company                             B. Eastland Company

C. East India Company

43.    _____ started the slave trade in the second part of the 16th century.

A. John Hawkins         B. Francis Drake         C. Diaz

44.    In 1534 Parliament passed the “_____”, according to which Henry VIII was declared the head of the English Church.

A. the Bill of Rights      B. Act of Supremacy   C. Act of Settlement

45.    Under Elizabeth I _____ was restored, and she was declared “governor” of the church.

A. the Roman Church                              B. the Catholic Church

C. the Anglican Church

46.    In 1337 the hostility between England and _____ resulted in the Hundred Years’ War.

A. France                    B. Spain                      C. Russia

47.    The religious persecution mainly existed during the reign of _____.

A. Cromwell                B. Charles I                 C. Henry VIII

48.    England first became a sea power in the time of _____.

A. Henry VII        B. Elizabeth I        C. Victoria

49.    The Industrial Revolution first started in _____.

A. the iron industry      B. the textile industry    C. the coal industry

50.    From 1688 to 1783 English Parliament was mainly controlled by the party of _____.

A. Tory                       B. Whig                       C. Labour

51.    The English Prime Minister during the Second World War was _____.

A. Churchill                 B. Chamberlain            C. Baldwin

52.    At the End of _____ century, the East India Company was formed.

A. 15^th                        B. 16^th                         C. 14^th

53.    The Seven Years War between England and France lasted from _____ to _____.

A. 1756, 1763            B. 1713, 1720             C. 1754, 1761

54.    In 1689 Parliament passed “_____”, limiting the powers of the crown.

A. Habeas Corpus Act            B. the Bill of Rights    C. Navigation Act

55.    _____ contrasted the first successful steam locomotive.

A. George Stephenson                             B. Samuel Crompton

C. James Hargreaves

56.    The “Peterloo Massacre” took place in _____.

A. Birmingham             B. Liverpool                C. Manchester

57.    Between 1911 and 1914 took place the following strikes except _____.

A. railway strike                                             B. strike of the postmen

C. coal strike                                           D. strike of the transport

58.    The Victorian Age was over the _____ began.

A. Edwardian Age       B. Georgian Age          C. Elizabethan Age

59.    The _____ government surrendered to the British invaders and was forced to sign the first unequal Treaty of Nanjing in 1842.

A. Indian               B. Qing          C. Irish                D. Spanish

60.    The Great Charter was essentially a _____.

A. Culture Movement                              B. colonial document

C. feudal document

61.    _____ broke out two years after the Hundred Years’ War with France.

A. The Bore War                                            B. The Wars of the Roses

C. Queen Annes’ War

62.    The Reformation was a product of _____.

A. the Renaissance                                         B. the Chartist Movement

C. the Hundred Years’ War

63.    The greatest dramatist of the English Renaissance was _____.

A. Shakespeare           B. Milton                C. Chaucer            D. Bacon

64.    The English Revolution marks the beginning of the _____ period of capitalism.

A. feudal                     B. modern              C. colonial           D. medi

65.    By the _____ in 1783, Britain recognized the independence of the US.

A. Declaratory Act      B. Treaty of Paris  C. Treaty of Montgomery

66.    The Chartist Movement began in _____ and reached its height in _____.

A. 1845, 1858            B. 1828, 1835             C. 1839, 1848

67.    In 1840 Britain launched an aggressive war against _____.

A. France                    B. India                 C. China         D. America

68.    _____ formed a coalition government in 1940.

A. Winston Churchill    B. Lloyd George          C. Neville Chamberlain

69.    By the _____ the British dominions became independent states in all but name.

A. Statue of Westminster                                B. Locarno Treaty

C. Disputes Act

70.    The Fabians Society was founded in 1883, including intellectuals such as _____.

A. William Shakespeare & Ben Jonson

B. Christopher Marlowe & John Milton

C. G. B. Shaw & H. G. Wells

71.    Before WWII _____ relied on appeasement of the European dictators to reduce tensions that might lead to war.

A. Neville Chamberlain                                   A. Stanley Baldwin

C. Winston Churchill

72.    During WWII, Britain, America, France, Soviet Union and other antifascist countries formed a united international alliance which was called _____.

A. Locarno Treaty       B. Grand Alliance C. Statute of Westminster

73.    The first coalition government during WWI was organized when _____ was the Prime Minister.

A. Lloyd George         B. Herbert Asquith       C. Stanley Baldwin

74.    When Germany invaded _____ which was neutral, Britain declared war on Germany on 4 August, 1914.

A. Austria                    B. Russia               C. Belgium          D. Poland

 

II. Fill in the Blanks

 

1.        At about 3000 BC, some of the _____ settled in Britain.

2.        About 122 AD, in order to keep back the Picts and Scots, the _____ built Hadrian’s Wall.

3.        The real Roman conquest began in _____.

4.        _____ _____’s “Paradise Lost” was published in 1667.

5.        Beowulf, considered the greatest Old English poem, is assigned to _____ Times.

6.        _____ was considered the first national hero.

7.        On Christmas Day 1066 Duke _____ was crowned in Westminster Abbey.

8.        In history John was nicknamed King of _____.

9.        John signed the document in 1215, which in history was called the Great Charter or _____ _____.

10.    In 1086 William had his official to make a general survey of the land, known as _____ Book.

11.    The most famous scholar during Anglo-Saxon Times was _____.

12.    The Battle of _____ paved the way for the Norman Conquest to England.

13.    The Norman Conquest increased the process of _____ which had begun during the Anglo-Saxon Times.

14.    Duke William was known in history as William the _____.

15.    Along with the Normans came the _____ language.

16.    The English parliament originated in the _____ _____.

17.    The head of the _____ was Archbishop of _____.

18.    The _____ _____ in 1688 was in nature a coup d’etat.

19.    The People’s Charter included _____ points such as universal male suffrage.

20.    The corrupt Qing government surrendered to Britain and was forced to sign the first unequal Treaty of _____ in 1842.

21.    After the Crimean War _____ was forced not to fortify Sebastopol.

22.    The third collection of the poll tax in the early part of 1381 became the fuse of _____ _____ rising.

23.    The Wars of the Roses broke out between the _____ and the _____.

24.    The Enclosure Movement began in the _____ century.

25.    By the treaty of _____ in 1783, Britain recognized the independence of the US.

26.    In _____ Britain launched the Opium War against China.

27.    The East India Company formed at the end of the 16^th century was one of _____ companies.

28.    After the Reformation the Roman Catholic Church was _____, the English Church was strictly _____.

29.    Mary I re-established Catholicism and burnt three hundred Protestants, for which she was called “_____” Mary.

30.    “Renaissance” means “_____”, i.e. Europe rediscovering its origins in the cultures of ancient Greek and Rome.

31.    During the Renaissance, the thinkers who worked for freedom and enlightenment were called “_____”.

32.    The nature of the Wars of the Roses was a _____ _____ war.

33.    By the beginning of the Tudor reign the manor system was replaced by the _____ system.

34.    In the summer of 1588 the Spanish ships, the _____ _____ was defeated by English ships.

35.    The greatest English humanist was Sir _____ _____ whose work _____ became a humanistic classic in the world literature.

36.    English Renaissance began in _____ century.

37.    The House of _____ was notorious for its absolutist rule.

38.    During the Civil Wars (1642 – 1648) the supporters of Parliament were called _____ while the supporters of the King Charles I were called _____.

39.    In 1653 Cromwell was made _____ _____ for life and started his military dictatorship openly.

40.    The Seven Years War was ended by the Treaty of _____.

41.    The first two parties appeared in England were the _____ and the _____.

42.    The basic point of the People’s Charter is _____ _____.

43.    In 1764 James Hargreaves invented the _____ _____.

44.    From 1863 to the end of the century Britain had been carrying a foreign policy of _____ _____.

45.    The Parliament passed the Act of _____ in 1701, excluding James Catholic son from the succession.

46.    After Charles I was beheaded in 1649 England was declared a _____.

47.    In September 1939 Germany invaded _____, thus Britain and France declared war on Germany.

48.    The Industrial Revolution started during the last part of the _____ century.

49.    The steam engine was invented by _____ _____ in 1769.

50.    Samuel Crompton invented the _____ _____ in 1779.

51.    Edmund Cartwright invented the _____ _____ in 1785.

52.    Upon the completion of the _____ _____ by 1850 England became the workshop of the world.

53.    In 1868 the first Trade Union Congress met in _____.

54.    In 1534 Parliament passed the “_____ _____ _____”.

55.    On the eve of WWI the Triple Alliance between Germany, Austria-Hungary and _____ was formed.

56.    The First World War was an imperialist war as well as a _____ war because it was not confined only to Europe. It lasted _____ years.

57.    At the _____ _____ _____, the League of Nations was established and the Treaty of Versailles was signed.

58.    The _____ _____ of 1926 was Austen chamberlain’s chief claim to fame as foreign secretary.

59.    On May 7, 1945, _____ surrendered unconditionally.

60.    It was _____ _____ who led the country during the “miracle of Dunkirk”.

61.    When George I began the Houses of Hanover in 1714, the _____ system was established.

 

III.        Explain the Following Terms

 

1.        The Norman Conquest

2.        The Glorious Revolution

3.        The Chartist Movement

4.        The Opium War

5.        The Hundred Years’ War

6.        Black Death

 

IV.               Answer the Following Questions

 

1.        What, in your opinion, are the main causes for the slow growth of Britain’s economy since the Second World War?

2.        What is the importance Simon de Mortfort hold in British history (with special reference to his role in the creation of the Parliament system)?

3.        What importance did King Alfred hold in British history?