The Battle at Hastings

Magna 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.

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