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