Lesson Y7-U06-L04

Y7-U06-L04 Elizabeth I and the Middle Way Quiz: KS3 History, Unit 6

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Lesson Y7-U06-L04, Elizabeth I and the Middle Way: 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. In what year did Elizabeth I pass her Religious Settlement?

    • 1588
    • 1549
    • 1559
    • 1534

  2. What title did Elizabeth I take instead of 'Supreme Head' of the Church?

    • Archbishop of Canterbury
    • Supreme Governor
    • Defender of the Faith
    • Supreme Pope

  3. What did the Act of Uniformity of 1559 require?

    • Everyone to use one Protestant prayer book and attend their parish church on Sundays
    • Everyone to pay a yearly tithe of one tenth of their harvest to the Pope in Rome
    • Everyone to attend a Latin Mass celebrated by a priest sent from Rome each Sunday
    • Everyone to become a monk or nun and live in a monastery supported by the Crown

  4. What was the fine for missing church under the 1559 settlement?

    • Exile to Spain
    • A shilling
    • Death by burning
    • A year in prison

  5. What is a recusant?

    • A Catholic who refused to attend the new Church of England services
    • A monk who ran a school in a monastery
    • A royal official who collected church taxes
    • A strict Protestant who wanted to remove all church decoration

  6. What did the Pope do to Elizabeth I in 1570?

    • He excommunicated her and said Catholics owed her no obedience
    • He invited her to Rome to confess her sins before the cardinals and the Holy Office
    • He sent an army of Spanish soldiers to London to remove her from the English throne
    • He crowned her as queen of Spain and declared her the rightful ruler of the Netherlands

  7. Which Catholic queen fled to England in 1568 and became a focus for plots against Elizabeth I?

    • Catherine of Aragon
    • Mary, Queen of Scots
    • Anne of Cleves
    • Mary Tudor

  8. Which symbol in Elizabeth I's portraits stood for purity?

    • A globe
    • An ermine coat
    • A sieve
    • A rose

  9. What did the globe in Elizabeth I's portraits symbolise?

    • A gift from Spain to honour her marriage proposal
    • Her age and wisdom, earned through decades of ruling
    • Her love of farming and of the English countryside
    • Power reaching across the world

  10. Why was Elizabeth I known as the 'Virgin Queen'?

    • She was a widow
    • She had seven children
    • She never married
    • She became a nun

  11. Which group wanted to strip robes, candles and bishops out of the Church of England?

    • Recusants
    • Lollards
    • Jesuits
    • Puritans

  12. Which Catholic power prepared to attack England in 1588?

    • Spain
    • Scotland
    • France
    • Denmark

  13. A Catholic family in 1565 refuses to attend the new Church of England services. What is the most likely consequence under the settlement?

    • They pay a small fine for missing church
    • They are sent to live in a monastery
    • They are burned at the stake for heresy
    • They are made Head of the Church

  14. Why did the Communion wording in the 1559 settlement deliberately stay vague?

    • So that both Catholics and Protestants could take part and believe what they wished
    • So that Parliament could rewrite the service wording every single year after debate
    • So that the Pope could interpret the words for English people in their own churches
    • So that only the priests who were trained in Latin could understand the words properly

  15. What did Elizabeth I mean when she said she did not wish to 'make windows into men's souls'?

    • She believed all church windows should be made of coloured glass
    • She wanted every person's soul examined by the Church
    • She wanted to open churches to foreign visitors
    • She cared about outward obedience and peace, not what people privately believed

  16. Elizabeth I's portraits were painted to be copied across England. Why are they useful evidence for a historian?

    • It is an exact photograph of her face at the time she sat for the painter
    • It shows how Elizabeth wanted to be seen and how she used image to rule
    • It shows what ordinary people thought of her in private, away from the court
    • It proves her exact age and state of health during the difficult years of war

  17. Which part of the 1559 settlement most angered Catholics who obeyed the Pope?

    • The fine of one shilling for missing church, which many families found hard to pay
    • Elizabeth being made Supreme Governor, so the English Church rejected the Pope's authority
    • The vague wording of the Communion service, which let people believe what they wished
    • Elizabeth keeping candles, robes and some decoration in churches for worship

  18. Why is the 1559 settlement described as a 'middle way' rather than an exact halfway point?

    • It returned the Pope's authority to England but kept the Protestant prayer book in use
    • Its rules were exactly half Catholic and half Protestant, with equal weight given to each
    • It allowed each parish to choose its own religion and its own form of worship freely
    • Its rules were largely Protestant, with the Catholic elements mostly in appearance and tone

  19. Which threat to Elizabeth I continued through most of her reign despite the 1559 Religious Settlement?

    • Catholic plots linked to Mary, Queen of Scots, and Spain
    • The Prayer Book Rebellion of 1549 in the West Country
    • The Wars of the Roses between York and Lancaster in the 1400s
    • The Pilgrimage of Grace, a rising in northern England in 1536

  20. Which threat from abroad did Elizabeth I face after the 1559 settlement?

    • France taking back Calais from the Pope
    • The Pope crowning Elizabeth Queen of Spain
    • Catholic Spain preparing to attack England
    • Scotland refusing to pay taxes to England

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