The Tudor period

Test 5

1. Choose the right option. What monarch built the foundations of a wealthy nation state and powerful monarchy?

A Elizabeth I

В Henry VII

С Henry VIII

D Mary Tudor

2. What is odd here? Henry VII believed that... was/were bad for a state.

A war

B quarrels

С merchant fleet

D business

3. Agree (write T) or disagree (write F). Henry VIII approved of the new ideas of Reformation Protestantism introduced by Martin Luther and John Calvin.

4. Choose the right option. What do the letters "F.D.", which can be found on every British coin, mean?

A Defender of the Friends

В Faithful Defender

С Defender of the Faith

5. Agree (write T) or disagree (write F). The dissolution of the monasteries in the 1530s is considered the greatest act of official distraction in the history of Britain.

6. Agree (write T) or disagree (write F). The Parliament agreed to Mary's marriage and accepted Philip as king of England for Mary's lifetime.

7. Agree (write T) or disagree (write F). Catholic France and Spain were stronger than England under the Tudors.

8. Agree (write T) or disagree (write F ).Elizabeth avoided marriages to French and Spanish kings because she knew how much damage Mary had done having married to Philip.

9. Agree (write T) or disagree (write F). People had to go to church on Sundays by law. If they stayed away, they were fined.

10. Agree (write T) or disagree (write F). By 1585 most English people believed that to be a protestant was to be an enemy of England.

11. Agree (write T) or disagree (write F). Ivan IV, the Russian tsar, was in correspondence with Elizabeth I for many years.

12. Choose the right option. Who was the main England's trade rival in those times?

A Italy

В France

С Spain

D the Netherlands

13. Choose the right option. What were John Hawkins, Francis Drake and Martin Frobisher?

A adventures

В priests

С scientists

D diplomats

14. Choose the right option. Who are the words about? "... young, fit, well educated and handsome, fond of hunting and playing tennis, wrote music and books.... was to become a bloody tyrant."

A Richard III

В Mary Stuart

С Henry VIII

D James

15. Who do these words belong to?

"I am come... to live or die amongst you all, to lay down for my God, and for my kingdom, and for my people, my honour and my blood even in the dust. I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king of England too". Choose the right option.

A. Mary Stuart

В Mary Tudor

С Elizabeth I

D Victoria

16. Agree (write T) or disagree (write F). England had worse fleet than Philip.

17. Choose the right option. Who brought tobacco to England?

A Peter the Great

В Francis Drake

С Sir Walter Raleigh

D Sir Burghley

18. Choose the right option. The state of Virginia in the USA was named after....

A Queen Victoria

В Mary Stuart

С Elizabeth I

D James I

19. Match the names with nationalities:

1. Pritchard A. Welsh

2. McDonald В. Irish

3. Robert С. English

4. О'Neil D. Scottish

20. Choose the right option. Eisteddfod is a(n).... festival of music and poetry.

A Irish

В English

С Scottish

D Welsh

21. Agree (write T) or disagree (write F). Irish nobility and gentry refused to take monasteries' land.

22. Choose the right option. Ulster is a(n) ……city.

A Irish

В English

С Scottish

D Welsh

23. Choose the right option. Who was a catholic monarch in the protestant country?

A. Victoria

В. Mary Tudor

С. Mary Stuart

D. Henry VIII

24. Choose the right option(s ). In the Tudor period Scotland had the best education in Europe. It happened due to....

A Rapid economic development

В Protestant Reformation

С scientists and teachers who, came from other European universities.

D new technologies

25. Choose the right option(s). What bad mistakes were made by Elizabeth I?

A selling monopolies

В selling state positions

С war with Spain

D capture of Spanish ships from America

E English settlements in foreign territories

26. Choose the right option. At what age did James VI begin to rule?

A. 30

В. 12

С. 26

D. 16

27. Write the answer. What new function of Parliament did Henry VII add?

28. Agree (write T) or disagree (write F). The members of the House of Lords were elected.

29. Agree (write T) or disagree (write F). Under the Tudors Parliament was getting weaker.

30. Choose the right option(s). What branches of industry developed rapidly?

A house building

В shipbuilding

С mining

D steel

E textile

31. Choose the right option. What English city was the filthiest in the world by 1600?

A. Birmingham

В. Newcastle

С. York

D. London

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