1C.3 Social and intellectual challenge, 1625–88 Quiz: Pearson Edexcel History, Unit 3

The 20 questions

1. Which radical group, led by John Lilburne, advocated for a written constitution and wider franchise in the 1640s?

   • Levellers
   • Ranters
   • Diggers
   • Fifth Monarchists

2. Which radical group, led by Gerrard Winstanley, set up a community on common land at St George's Hill?

   • Diggers
   • Quakers
   • Muggletonians
   • Levellers

3. In Leviathan (1651), what form of ruler did Thomas Hobbes argue was required to prevent chaos?

   • Council of elders
   • Constitutional monarch
   • Elected parliament
   • Absolute sovereign

4. Which scientific institution received a royal charter from Charles II in 1662 to promote experimental knowledge?

   • Royal Society
   • East India Company
   • Invisible College
   • Bank of England

5. According to John Locke's Two Treatises of Government (1689), legitimate political authority relies on what?

   • Consent of governed
   • Military force
   • Divine right
   • Absolute power

6. Which scientific approach to knowledge is most associated with Francis Bacon?

   • Divine revelation
   • Inductive reasoning
   • Scholasticism
   • Deductive reasoning

7. Under English vagrancy legislation, how were sturdy beggars primarily punished?

   • Whipping and removal
   • Forced army enlistment
   • Fines and imprisonment
   • Execution by hanging

8. Population growth in England between 1550 and 1650 directly caused a rise in which issue?

   • Decline of trade
   • Poverty and vagrancy
   • Falling food prices
   • Depopulation of London

9. Which English city saw the greatest growth in merchant and professional classes in the seventeenth century?

   • London
   • York
   • Bristol
   • Norwich

10. What did Gerard Winstanley and the Diggers describe the earth as in 1649?

    • Private property
    • A military base
    • A royal domain
    • A common treasury

11. Which form of government did Thomas Hobbes advocate in Leviathan (1651)?

    • Constitutional monarchy
    • Parliamentary republic
    • Absolute sovereignty
    • Direct democracy

12. At which 1647 event did the Levellers debate political reform with New Model Army officers?

    • Hampton Court Conference
    • The Putney Debates
    • Short Parliament
    • Whitehall Debates

13. Which primary method did members of the Royal Society use to advance scientific understanding?

    • Controlled experimentation
    • Scriptural analysis
    • Astrological charting
    • Scholastic disputation

14. Which group was classified as 'undeserving' poor under seventeenth-century Poor Laws?

    • Elderly widows
    • Orphaned children
    • Disabled veterans
    • Able-bodied vagrants

15. Which radical religious group challenged the Church of England by rejecting formal liturgy and tithes?

    • The Quakers
    • The Lutherans
    • The Methodists
    • The Huguenots

16. Why did many royalists reject Thomas Hobbes's political arguments in Leviathan?

    • Abolished monarchy
    • Omitted divine right
    • Supported Catholicism
    • Favoured democracy

17. How did agricultural enclosure contribute directly to growing rural poverty in seventeenth-century England?

    • Lowering food prices
    • Restricting common rights
    • Ending all leaseholds
    • Banning farm machinery

18. Why was the impact of the scientific revolution largely limited to social elites?

    • Widespread mass literacy
    • Restricted intellectual circles
    • Banning scientific books
    • Closure of universities

19. Which concept increasingly replaced divine right as the justification for monarchical authority by 1688?

    • Feudal homage
    • Social contract theory
    • Absolute lawlessness
    • Papal supremacy

20. Which radical document containing Levellers' political demands was rejected by Parliament?

    • The Instrument of Government
    • Petition of Right
    • Agreement of the People
    • The Grand Remonstrance

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