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The Battle at HastingsMagna Carta The Doomsday Book marked a stage in the collapse of English feudalism. 12. Magna Carta was an agreement between the king and the nobles. the peasants and the nobles. the nobles and the middle class. 13. In the Middle Ages more good land was used for crop rotation. grazing sheep. grazing cattle. 14. Replacement of wool by finished cloth took place in the 11th the 13th the 14th century. 15. Richard III was unpopular among both the Lancastrians and the Yorkists. Richard III was popular among the Lancastrians and the Yorkists. Richard III was popular among the Lancastrians. 16. Richard the Lionhearted spent only six months six years one year in England. Wat Tyler William Wallace Simon de Monfort is considered to be the father of English parliament. 18. Spinsters spun wool in their own homes. worked in textile manufactures. didn’t want to marry. Magna Carta The Black Death The Peasants’ Revolt made it possible for workers to ask more money for their work. 20. The Black Death was a terrible plague. a common name for the Wars of the Roses. an execution in public. 21. The English printing press was invented by Geoffrey Chaucer. William Caxton. John Wycliffe. 22. The House of Commons consisted of the lords and the nobles. the gentry and merchants. the gentry and the knights. 23. The Hundred Years War started in 1237. 1337. 1437. 24. The Hundred Years War was won by the French. the English. nobody. 25. The landed gentry were the former knights. the former freemen. the former farmers. 26. The Normans behaved as an army of occupation. The Normans were welcomed by the people. The Normans didn’t use arms against the people. 27. The Peasnats’ Revolt of 1381 was successful. The Peasnats’ Revolt of 1381 failed. The Peasnats’ Revolt of 1381 put an end to feudalism. 28. The reason for the Hundred Years War was the English crown. extra land to exploit. religious disagreement. The Scots allied with the French The Scots allied with the English The English allied with the Germans in the Hundred Years War. 30. The Wars of the Roses were civil wars. colonial wars. world wars. 31. The word parliament means peaceful talks. a discussion meeting. an agreement with a king. 32. Thomas Becket was murdered on Henry II’s Edward I’s Richard III’s order. 33. Wat Tyler fought for the right to vote. fair treatment of the poor in England. religious freedoms. William Richard III Henry IIis considered to have made the first population census in Europe. 35. William Wallace fought for the independence of Ireland. England. Scotland. 36. Absolute monarchy was established in England after the Hundred Years War. after the Wars of the Roses. after the Norman Conquest. 37. The tradition of primogeniture meant the inheritance of all the land by the eldest son. the eldest daughter should become a spinster. the eldest son should buy a plot of land for himself. 38. During the Reformation in England the monarchy the system of common law the church was reformed.
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BRITISH STUDIES TEST 8 HISTORY OF GREAT BRITAIN Choose the correct answer out of the three:
1. Doomsday Book contained economic information about the people. heretic prayers. secret political documents. 2. Employed mercenaries were called knights. soldiers. vassals. 3. Enclosures started in the 13th Th 14th century. 4. Feudalism means giving land for service. trading in slaves. giving money for service. John Wycliffe Simon De Monfort Geoffrey Chaucer wrote the Canterbury Tales. 6. Hundred Years War ended in 1353. 1453. 1553. 7. In the battle at Hastings William Wallace fought against Harold. Wat Tyler fought against Edward. Harold fought against William. 8. Ireland was colonised in the 12th Th 14th century. William Wallace Joan of Arc William the Conqueror defeated the English army at Orleans. King Edward King John King Richard signed Magna Carta. 11. Lollards propagated equal rights for all freemen. reading the Bible in English. separating from the Church of Rome. 12. Magna Carta guaranteed equal rights for the Irish. the right to vote for all freemen. protection from king’s officers. Henry VII Richard the Lionhearted. Richard III spent his life in Crusades. 14. Robert Bruce fought for the independence of England. Scotland. Ireland. 15. Simon De Monfort is considered to be the father of English printing. parliament. common law. 16. The Black Death happened in the 13th Th 15th century. 17.The first English universities appeared in the 12th Th 14th century. 18. The first parliament assembled in 1465. 1365. 1265. 19. The House of Commons was a source of money for the king. a group of king’s advisors. an opposition to the king. 20. The Hundred Years War was between the Yorkists and Lancastrians. England and Scotland. England and France. 21. The king didn’t meet fulfilled signed the peasants’ demands voiced by Wat Tyler. The Yorkists The Lancastrians Nobody won in the Wars of the Roses. 23. The major technical development of the Middle Ages was the heavy plough. the printing press. the Welsh longbow. 24. The Norman Conquest was in 1066. 1166. 1266. 25. The reason for The Hundred Years War was securing political domination over France. Scotland. Ireland. 26. The Wars of the Roses destroyed the nobility. strengthened the house of Lancaster. strengthened the house of York. 27. The Wars of the Roses lasted from 1455 till 1485. from 1555 till 1585. from 1655-till 1685. 28. The word farm means a fixed agreement. a big villa. a fortified camp. 29. Thomas Becket was the author of the first Bible in English. the Archbishop of Canterbury. the leader of the Lollards. 30. Under Henry II Henry VII King John appeared the English system of common law. Wat Tyler Robert Bruce William Wallace was the leader of the Peasants’ Revolt in 1381. Henry VII William the Conqueror Richard III made the first complete economic survey of his possessions. Date: 2015-12-11; view: 924
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