Lesson Y107.3

Y107.3 Elizabeth's management of financial, economic and social affairs Quiz: OCR History, Unit 1

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The 20 questions

  1. Which financial advisor advised Elizabeth I on the successful recoinage process carried out in 1560?

    • Thomas Sackville
    • Thomas Gresham
    • Thomas Cecil
    • William Paulet

  2. Which major monetary reform was implemented in 1560 to tackle inflation caused by earlier debasement?

    • Debasement
    • Privatisation
    • Enclosure
    • Recoinage

  3. What was the single largest source of ordinary royal revenue during the reign of Elizabeth I?

    • Customs duties
    • Crown lands
    • Parliamentary subsidies
    • Feudal wardships

  4. Which 1563 statute aimed to regulate wages, enforce apprenticeships, and control worker movement across England?

    • Poor Law
    • Vagabonds Act
    • Statute of Artificers
    • Act of Uniformity

  5. Which legislation passed in 1601 created a complete national framework for parish-based poor relief?

    • Act of Settlement
    • Vagabonds Act
    • Statute of Artificers
    • Elizabethan Poor Law

  6. Under Elizabethan poor laws, how were able-bodied individuals who refused available work officially categorised?

    • Impotent poor
    • Deserving poor
    • Parish apprentices
    • Sturdy beggars

  7. Which local administrative unit was made responsible for administering poor relief under the 1601 legislation?

    • The parish
    • The hundred
    • The county
    • The borough

  8. What local tax was established in Elizabethan law to fund assistance for the deserving poor?

    • Hearth tax
    • Poor rate
    • Ship money
    • Tenths and fifteenths

  9. What exclusive trade privileges granted by Elizabeth created fierce opposition in Parliament in 1597 and 1601?

    • Purveyances
    • Wardships
    • Subsidies
    • Monopolies

  10. What Crown prerogative allowed royal officials to purchase supplies at below-market prices, causing parliamentary friction?

    • Monopoly
    • Wardship
    • Tonnage and poundage
    • Purveyance

  11. Which royal court managed crown rights over land held by underage heirs during Elizabeth's reign?

    • Court of Wards
    • Court of Chancery
    • Court of Augmentations
    • Court of Requests

  12. Who served as Elizabeth's primary financial director as Lord High Treasurer from 1572 to 1598?

    • William Cecil
    • Robert Dudley
    • Francis Walsingham
    • Robert Cecil

  13. Approximately how much royal debt did Elizabeth inherit upon her accession to the throne in 1558?

    • £227,000
    • £100,000
    • £800,000
    • £450,000

  14. By 1584, careful financial management allowed Elizabeth to clear all royal debt and secure what reserve?

    • £300,000 surplus
    • £1,000,000 fund
    • £50,000 deficit
    • £10,000 reserve

  15. Which famous commercial company was granted a royal charter in 1600 to trade with Asia?

    • East India Company
    • Virginia Company
    • Muscovy Company
    • Levant Company

  16. What environmental disaster in the mid-1590s caused severe widespread distress and food shortages across England?

    • Widespread cattle disease
    • Major floodings
    • Consecutive harvest failures
    • Outbreak of plague

  17. Which 1572 act introduced severe physical punishments, including ear-boring, for persistent unlicensed vagrants?

    • Vagabonds Act
    • Poor Relief Act
    • Statute of Artificers
    • Act of Settlement

  18. Which laws regulated what styles and fabrics of clothing English citizens could wear based on rank?

    • Poor laws
    • Sumptuary laws
    • Trade acts
    • Navigation acts

  19. Which chartered trading company was established in 1581 to develop English commerce in the Mediterranean?

    • Muscovy Company
    • Barbary Company
    • Levant Company
    • Eastland Company

  20. What direct taxation mechanism did Parliament grant Elizabeth to fund extraordinary expenses like foreign war?

    • Crown rents
    • Parliamentary subsidy
    • Customs duties
    • Feudal dues

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