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6. When was the monopolies crisis?

  • 1599
  • 1601
  • 1600

7. Who did Elizabeth have arrested to make sure her religious settlement went through parliament?

  • Winchester and Lincoln
  • Westminster and Lincoln
  • Westminster and Winchester

8. Who was given the task of restoring England to Catholicism if the Spanish invasion succeeded?

  • Robert Parsons
  • Cardinal William Allen
  • Edmund Campion
  • Richard Topclife

9. Who was barred from inheriting the throne in 1584 by an act of Parliament?

  • Anyone who has tried to assassinate Elizabeth
  • A Catholic
  • A spaniard
  • Anyone Scottish

10. When was the Throckmorton Plot?

  • 1574
  • 1572
  • 1571
  • 1573

11. What did Peter Turner try to pass a bill to bring in in 1584 which Parliament refused to hear?

  • A holy synod system of elders
  • A Calvinist prayer book and a Presbyterian system of Government
  • A series of Presbyterian articles for Bishops to swear by

12. When was the Statute of Artificers which limited upper wage limit meaning that people found it difficult to afford goods and the there was economic hardship?

  • 1563
  • 1562
  • 1564
  • 1561

13. What did the third parliament pass that Elizabeth vetoed? (Cartwirght and Turner)

  • a bill banning religious practices reminiscent of Catholicism
  • a bill removing the significance of Bishops
  • a bill removing the position f head of the church of England

14. What did not increase in the first part of Elizabeth's reign?

  • Crown Lands
  • Feudal dues and subsidies.
  • Crown savings
  • Foreign exports (e.g. wool)

15. Why were Jesuits in particular and Catholics in general not trusted?

  • Their use of equivocation (double speak)
  • Their allegiance to the Pope
  • The Catholic plots

16. When was the Babington Plot?

  • 1587
  • 1586
  • 1885
  • 1584

17. What was granted by parliament for the first time ever in 1576?

  • Money in peacetime
  • Religious immunity

18. Who headed a delegation in the second Parliament 1566 calling for the Queen to name a successor.

  • Norfolk
  • Walsingham
  • Cecil
  • Leicester

19. When did the war with spain end?

  • 1604 with the death of Both monarchs under the Treaty of London
  • 1603 Elizabeth defeated Philip
  • 1602

20. When did Elizabeth finally execute Mary?

  • July 1587
  • February 1587
  • March 1586
  • December 1587