- 1. Who was the first Plantagenet king of England?
A) Henry II
B) Edward I
C) William the Conqueror
D) Richard the Lionheart
- 2. Which English king signed the Magna Carta in 1215?
A) King John
B) King Henry VIII
C) King Richard III
D) King Edward II
- 3. Who was the Archbishop of Canterbury famously murdered in Canterbury Cathedral in 1170?
A) Thomas Becket
B) Thomas Wolsey
C) William Tyndale
D) Thomas More
- 4. Who led the Norman Conquest of England in 1066?
A) Edward the Confessor
B) William the Conqueror
C) Henry I
D) Harold Godwinson
- 5. Which English king was known as 'The Lionheart'?
A) Edward II
B) Henry III
C) John
D) Richard I
- 6. The Hundred Years' War was fought between England and which other country?
A) Portugal
B) Spain
C) France
D) Scotland
- 7. Which medieval English king was known for his six wives?
A) Henry VIII
B) Stephen
C) Edward IV
D) Richard II
- 8. What was the name of the civil war in medieval England fought between the House of Lancaster and the House of York?
A) Baronial Wars
B) Peasants' Revolt
C) Wars of the Roses
D) Anarchy
- 9. Who was the first Tudor monarch of England?
A) Mary I
B) Edward VI
C) Henry VII
D) Elizabeth I
- 10. Which English king was known as 'Longshanks'?
A) Richard II
B) Edward I
C) John
D) Henry II
- 11. Which medieval English king was deposed during the Peasants' Revolt of 1381?
A) Henry VI
B) Richard II
C) Edward III
D) Henry IV
- 12. Who was the author of 'The Canterbury Tales'?
A) John Gower
B) Thomas Malory
C) William Langland
D) Geoffrey Chaucer
- 13. During the Middle Ages, what was the main language used by the English nobility?
A) German
B) Latin
C) French
D) Old English
- 14. The War of the Roses was a struggle for the English throne between which two rival houses?
A) Plantagenet and Capet
B) Norman and Saxon
C) Tudor and Stuart
D) York and Lancaster
- 15. Who led a peasant uprising against the English nobility and clergy in 1381?
A) Robin Hood
B) John Ball
C) Jack Cade
D) Wat Tyler
- 16. Which famous English cathedral was consecrated in 1093, becoming a symbol of Norman power in England?
A) York Minster
B) Durham Cathedral
C) Westminster Abbey
D) Canterbury Cathedral
- 17. Who was the last Anglo-Saxon king of England before the Norman Conquest?
A) Edmund Ironside
B) Harold Godwinson
C) Edward the Confessor
D) Cnut the Great
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