To remove James II from the throne.

To suppress the uprising in Scotland.

To reform the Parliament.

2. The Whigs supported

rebelled against

were against absolute monarchy.

3. The Royalists were called Roundheads.

Cavaliers.

Levellers.

The Levellers

The Diggers

The Quakers were pacifists.

The Levellers

The Diggers

The Quakers proclaimed men and women equal.

6. The Puritans wanted limited monarchy.

universal suffrage.

a democratic Church.

7. The Pilgrim Fathers were the leaders of the Presbyterian Church.

travelling priests.

a group of Nonconformists who left Britain for America.

8. The Parliamentarians lost

won

didn’t take part in the Civil War.

9. The official church of the Commonwealth was Catholicism.

Presbyterianism.

the Anglican Church.

10. The Independents were rich landowners and merchants.

small producers, gentry and peasants.

nonconformist religious groups.

11. The Glorious Revolution took place in 1688.

1660.

1701.

12. The Glorious Revolution meant the beginning of

religious wars.

the struggle for independence.

capitalism.

13. The Civil War in England was a war between

king and the church.

Parliament and bourgeoisie.

king and Parliament.

14. The Bill of Rights established the power of

the king over parliament

Parliament over the king.

the king over the church.

15. The Act of Settlement

established a new dynasty on the throne.

prevented a Catholic to inherit the English throne.

united Ireland and England.

16. Scotland was united with England in 1603.

1703.

1660.

17. Presbyterians agreed to compromise with a monarch.

didn’t agree to compromise with a monarch.

agreed to compromise with parliament.

The king

Parliament

The Royalists controlled the sources of wealth during the Civil War.

19. Levellers wanted complete religious freedom.

complete separation from Puritanism.

a new democratic church.

20. James VI of Scotland

defeated England and became King of England.

inherited the English crown.

was nominated king by English Parliament.

21. In 1628 Charles signed the Petition of Rights.

the Bill of Rights.

the Act of Settlement.

22. Great Britain was formed in 1707.

1703.

1701.

23. During the Glorious Revolution

workers rebelled against the king.

the king was overthrown by Parliament.

the king was nominated by Parliament.

24. Diggers fought against the king.

cultivated common lands.

fought against Parliament.

25. Cromwell represented the class of capitalist landowners.

town merchants.

rising aristocracy.

26. Cromwell established democratic government.

military dictatorship.

welfare state.

27. Cromwell supported

cruelly punished

invited to his army the Irish rebels.

28. Cromwell became Governor General.

Lord Protector.

head of the Presbyterian Church.

29. Charles I was sent out of the country.

executed for treason.

excommunicated.

30. Britain was a republic for 20

12 years.

31. At the River Boyne

William of Orange defeated James II’s army.

James II defeated William’s army.

The Irish defeated James II’s army.

32. The two-party system developed in the 16th

Th

18th century.

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BRITISH STUDIES

TEST 11

HISTORY OF GREAT BRITAIN

Choose the correct answer out of the three:

1. In 1714 George I

James II

James III became King of Britain.

2. The Jacobites supported the King.

the parliament.

the Stuarts.

Robert Walpole

William Pitt

Simon de Montfort s considered to be the first British prime minister.

4. The Cabinet was composed of a group of MPs.

King’s advisers.

government ministers.

5. The country was fully shaped as constitutional monarchy in the

Th century.

Th century.

Th century.

6. The Seven Years’ War lasted from 1756 till 1763.

from 1736 till 1743.

from 1775 till 1783.

7. Britain won the Seven Years’ war.

Britain lost the Seven Years’ war.

Britain didn’t gain from the Seven Years’ war.

8. The American War of Independence was won by

the American colonists.

the British.

the French.

9. Orange Lodges were societies which were

against any freedom for the Catholics.

against any freedom for the Protestants.

against new settlers from England and Scotland.

10. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland lasted for

120 years.

11. The last battle on the British soil occurred in 1805.

1745.

1815.

12. In economic terms enclosures were

disastrous

profitable

meaningless for the country.

13. Workhouses provided

food in return for work.

food and shelter.

an opportunities for families to live together.

14. The "division of labour" means

distribution of labour force around the country.

carrying out one simple operation by one worker.

separating people in workhouses according to their sex.

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