1B.3 State control and popular resistance, 1509–88 Quiz: Pearson Edexcel History, Unit 2

The 20 questions

1. Which administrative body re-established in 1537 governed northern shires?

   • Council of the North
   • Northern Parliament
   • Council in the Marches
   • Palatinate Court

2. Which local officials carried out most unpaid administration in Tudor counties?

   • Customs officials
   • Justices of the Peace
   • Churchwardens
   • Bailiffs

3. Which Tudor officials were appointed to command county militias?

   • Lords Lieutenant
   • High Sheriffs
   • Custodes Rotulorum
   • Bailiffs

4. Which 1549 rebellion in Norfolk was primarily caused by anger over land enclosure?

   • Western Rebellion
   • Kett's Rebellion
   • Northern Rising
   • Wyatt's Rebellion

5. Which 1569 uprising aimed to restore Catholicism and depose Elizabeth I?

   • Wyatt's Rebellion
   • Pilgrimage of Grace
   • Northern Rising
   • Kett's Rebellion

6. Which 1549 rebellion in Devon and Cornwall was triggered by the new Protestant prayer book?

   • Wyatt's Rebellion
   • Kett's Rebellion
   • Western Rebellion
   • Northern Rising

7. Which 1572 statute introduced harsh physical penalties for masterless beggars in England?

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

8. What demographic factor was a primary cause of rising poverty in Tudor England?

   • Rapid population growth
   • Falling grain prices
   • Mass emigration
   • Widespread plague

9. Which two main providers supplied poor relief in Tudor England?

   • Guilds and monasteries
   • Crown and army
   • Mints and corporations
   • Charities and parishes

10. How did Tudor legislation in the 1530s primarily attempt to deal with healthy, unemployed vagrants?

    • Harsh physical punishment
    • Universal monetary grants
    • Guaranteed state employment
    • Forced overseas exile

11. What did popular resistance to parliamentary subsidies primarily threaten?

    • Foreign alliances
    • Royal income
    • Church unity
    • Enclosure laws

12. What was the main form of direct taxation voted by Parliament to fund the Tudor crown?

    • Feudal dues
    • Parliamentary subsidies
    • Tonnage and poundage
    • Ship money

13. What was a key reason for the decline in Tudor popular resistance between 1570 and 1588?

    • French military intervention
    • Complete tax abolition
    • Greater elite loyalty
    • Universal suffrage granted

14. What was the ultimate outcome of all major Tudor rebellions between 1536 and 1569?

    • They were defeated
    • Monarchs were overthrown
    • Parliament was dissolved
    • Foreign armies invaded

15. Who were the primary unpaid local officials enforcing laws in Tudor counties?

    • Town Mayors
    • Gentry Sheriffs
    • Manorial Stewards
    • Justices of the Peace

16. Who headed the special regional council that governed the Welsh border counties for the Tudor crown?

    • Lord President
    • Earl Marshal
    • Lord Chancellor
    • Lord High Treasurer

17. Which group did the Tudor crown rely on most to raise troops and keep order regionally?

    • Foreign mercenaries
    • Local nobility
    • Peasant yeomen
    • Urban merchants

18. Put these events in order: A) Pilgrimage of Grace, B) Northern Rising, C) Western Rebellion.

    • B, then A, then C
    • C, then A, then B
    • A, then B, then C
    • A, then C, then B

19. Which legal punishment was commonly inflicted on persistent vagrants under Tudor vagabond laws?

    • Whipping and branding
    • Public hanging only
    • Exile to colonies
    • Fines and imprisonment

20. The dissolution of which institution in the 1530s severely disrupted traditional poor relief in England?

    • The grammar schools
    • The craft guilds
    • The chantries
    • The monasteries

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