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