England in the Middle Ages
- 1. Who was the first Plantagenet king of England?
A) Henry II
B) Edward I
C) Richard the Lionheart
D) William the Conqueror
- 2. Which English king signed the Magna Carta in 1215?
A) King Richard III
B) King Edward II
C) King Henry VIII
D) King John
- 3. Who was the Archbishop of Canterbury famously murdered in Canterbury Cathedral in 1170?
A) Thomas Becket
B) Thomas More
C) Thomas Wolsey
D) William Tyndale
- 4. Who led the Norman Conquest of England in 1066?
A) Harold Godwinson
B) Edward the Confessor
C) Henry I
D) William the Conqueror
- 5. Which English king was known as 'The Lionheart'?
A) Edward II
B) Richard I
C) Henry III
D) John
- 6. The Hundred Years' War was fought between England and which other country?
A) France
B) Portugal
C) Spain
D) Scotland
- 7. Which medieval English king was known for his six wives?
A) Henry VIII
B) Edward IV
C) Stephen
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) Anarchy
B) Wars of the Roses
C) Peasants' Revolt
D) Baronial Wars
- 9. Who was the first Tudor monarch of England?
A) Elizabeth I
B) Henry VII
C) Edward VI
D) Mary I
- 10. Which English king was known as 'Longshanks'?
A) Henry II
B) John
C) Richard II
D) Edward I
- 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) 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) French
C) Old English
D) Latin
- 14. The War of the Roses was a struggle for the English throne between which two rival houses?
A) York and Lancaster
B) Plantagenet and Capet
C) Tudor and Stuart
D) Norman and Saxon
- 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) Durham Cathedral
B) Westminster Abbey
C) Canterbury Cathedral
D) York Minster
- 17. Who was the last Anglo-Saxon king of England before the Norman Conquest?
A) Cnut the Great
B) Edmund Ironside
C) Edward the Confessor
D) Harold Godwinson
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