England in the Middle Ages
- 1. Who was the first Plantagenet king of England?
A) William the Conqueror
B) Henry II
C) Edward I
D) Richard the Lionheart
- 2. Which English king signed the Magna Carta in 1215?
A) King Henry VIII
B) King John
C) King Richard III
D) King Edward II
- 3. Who was the Archbishop of Canterbury famously murdered in Canterbury Cathedral in 1170?
A) Thomas More
B) Thomas Becket
C) Thomas Wolsey
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) Richard I
B) Edward II
C) Henry III
D) John
- 6. The Hundred Years' War was fought between England and which other country?
A) Portugal
B) France
C) Spain
D) Scotland
- 7. Which medieval English king was known for his six wives?
A) Richard II
B) Henry VIII
C) Edward IV
D) Stephen
- 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) Wars of the Roses
C) Anarchy
D) Peasants' Revolt
- 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) John
B) Edward I
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) Henry VI
D) Richard II
- 12. Who was the author of 'The Canterbury Tales'?
A) Thomas Malory
B) Geoffrey Chaucer
C) William Langland
D) John Gower
- 13. During the Middle Ages, what was the main language used by the English nobility?
A) Latin
B) Old English
C) French
D) German
- 14. The War of the Roses was a struggle for the English throne between which two rival houses?
A) York and Lancaster
B) Norman and Saxon
C) Plantagenet and Capet
D) Tudor and Stuart
- 15. Who led a peasant uprising against the English nobility and clergy in 1381?
A) John Ball
B) Jack Cade
C) Wat Tyler
D) Robin Hood
- 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) Edward the Confessor
C) Harold Godwinson
D) Cnut the Great
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