Lesson Y7-U06-L01

Y7-U06-L01 The Tudors Arrive A New Dynasty Quiz: KS3 History, Unit 6

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Lesson Y7-U06-L01, The Tudors Arrive A New Dynasty: 20 multiple choice questions for the KS3 History (National Curriculum), Unit 6: Year 7: The Tudors, written with Revision Ninja.

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The 20 questions

  1. What were the Wars of the Roses fought over?

    • The city of London and its trading rights, which both families wanted to control for their wealth
    • Control of the Danelaw in the north of England, which was contested by the rival royal families
    • The right to collect tithes from the Church across every county of the kingdom each year
    • The English crown, between the houses of Lancaster and York, over many years of fighting

  2. Which house used a red rose as its symbol?

    • York
    • Tudor
    • Lancaster
    • Stuart

  3. Which house used a white rose as its symbol?

    • Wessex
    • Normandy
    • York
    • Lancaster

  4. From roughly which year did the Wars of the Roses begin?

    • 1066
    • 1215
    • 1348
    • 1455

  5. Who was king of England in 1485?

    • Henry VIII
    • Richard III
    • Henry VII
    • Edward IV

  6. Why was Richard III unpopular?

    • He had raised taxes on the Church to pay for a crusade to the Holy Land and to Jerusalem
    • Many believed he had murdered his two young nephews, the Princes in the Tower of London
    • He had forbidden trade with the towns of the Hanseatic League along the coast of northern Europe
    • He had given England to the French king without a fight, in a secret treaty with Paris

  7. Where was Henry Tudor living before he invaded England in 1485?

    • In exile in France
    • In the Tower of London under guard
    • In the north of England among the Danes
    • In Rome with the Pope as a monk

  8. Which family did Henry Tudor belong to?

    • The Stuarts, the Scottish royal family who inherited the English throne later on in history
    • The Normans, the family of William the Conqueror who had ruled England since the year 1066
    • The Lancastrians, the branch of the royal family whose symbol was the red rose
    • The Yorkists, the rival branch of the royal family who had won the crown in 1461

  9. Where and when was the Battle of Bosworth fought?

    • Leicestershire, on 22 August 1485
    • Yorkshire, on 25 September 1066
    • Dorset, on 8 June 1348
    • Kent, on 14 October 1066

  10. Which family switched sides to Henry at a key moment in the battle?

    • The Percys
    • The Nevilles
    • The Mortimers
    • The Stanleys

  11. What happened to Richard III at Bosworth?

    • He escaped to France and lived as an exile
    • He was surrounded and killed in the battle
    • He became a monk in Canterbury and died peacefully
    • He surrendered and was sent to live in a monastery

  12. Why did Henry's blood claim to the throne matter?

    • It was weak, so winning the battle mattered more than his right by blood
    • It was strong, because he was the eldest son of the last Tudor king
    • It was strong, because he had been crowned by the Pope in Rome
    • It was irrelevant, because the Witan had already chosen him as king

  13. Why might a king who won his crown in battle always be nervous?

    • He would be afraid that the Witan would pass laws against him
    • Someone else could raise an army and take the crown from him the same way
    • He would fear that his children would be sent to live in exile
    • He would be afraid of the Pope's excommunication every single year

  14. What did Henry VII do to unite the Lancaster and York families?

    • He gave the Yorks the whole of the Danelaw
    • He sent Elizabeth of York to live in France
    • He married Elizabeth of York in 1486
    • He made the Yorks into Church bishops across England

  15. What was the Tudor Rose?

    • A symbol combining the red rose of Lancaster and the white rose of York
    • A badge worn by the nobles who had supported Richard III
    • A sign for the Church that marked the king's private land
    • A new royal flag that replaced the lion of England

  16. Which two men pretended to be the lost princes or claimants to the throne?

    • Lambert Simnel and Perkin Warbeck
    • Edgar the Aetheling and Harald Hardrada
    • Richard the Lionheart and John
    • Harold Godwinson and William of Normandy

  17. How did Henry VII control the nobles?

    • He handed his tax income over to the nobles each year
    • He fined over-mighty nobles and banned private armies
    • He sent every noble to live at the Pope's court in Rome
    • He gave each noble a castle and a private army

  18. Why did Henry VII fill the treasury?

    • He wanted to build the largest abbey in Europe for his tomb
    • He wanted to fund a crusade to the Holy Land for the Pope
    • He wanted to buy the Danelaw from the Vikings for England
    • A rich king was a strong king who could pay his soldiers and officials

  19. Which of these was a way Henry secured the throne without using a sword?

    • A new invasion of France
    • A wedding and a clever badge
    • A surrender of the Church's lands
    • A long war against the Scots

  20. What were the Tudors' first real steps to a lasting dynasty?

    • Ending the tithe and giving the land to the peasants
    • Building Roman-style roads and stone walls around every town
    • Giving every village a royal charter and a market day
    • Marriage, symbols, defeating challengers and controlling money

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