England in the Middle Ages
- 1. Who was the first Plantagenet king of England?
A) Henry II
B) William the Conqueror
C) Edward I
D) Richard the Lionheart
- 2. Which English king signed the Magna Carta in 1215?
A) King John
B) King Edward II
C) King Richard III
D) King Henry VIII
- 3. Who was the Archbishop of Canterbury famously murdered in Canterbury Cathedral in 1170?
A) Thomas Becket
B) William Tyndale
C) Thomas More
D) Thomas Wolsey
- 4. Who led the Norman Conquest of England in 1066?
A) Harold Godwinson
B) Henry I
C) William the Conqueror
D) Edward the Confessor
- 5. Which English king was known as 'The Lionheart'?
A) Henry III
B) Richard I
C) John
D) Edward II
- 6. The Hundred Years' War was fought between England and which other country?
A) Spain
B) France
C) Portugal
D) Scotland
- 7. Which medieval English king was known for his six wives?
A) Stephen
B) Henry VIII
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) Peasants' Revolt
B) Anarchy
C) Wars of the Roses
D) Baronial Wars
- 9. Who was the first Tudor monarch of England?
A) Mary I
B) Elizabeth I
C) Edward VI
D) Henry VII
- 10. Which English king was known as 'Longshanks'?
A) Henry II
B) Edward I
C) John
D) Richard II
- 11. Which medieval English king was deposed during the Peasants' Revolt of 1381?
A) Henry IV
B) Richard II
C) Edward III
D) Henry VI
- 12. Who was the author of 'The Canterbury Tales'?
A) John Gower
B) Geoffrey Chaucer
C) Thomas Malory
D) William Langland
- 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) 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) John Ball
B) Wat Tyler
C) Robin Hood
D) Jack Cade
- 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) Harold Godwinson
D) Edward the Confessor
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