Chapter 3 Test 8

During the Middle Ages, England was an important trading nation and people came to England from abroad to trade and also to work. Where did the canal builders come from?

The Elizabethan period in England was a time of growing patriotism: a feeling of pride in being English, English explorers sought new trade routes and tried to expand British trade into the Spanish colonies in the Americas:

How many crosses form the Union Flag?

Who were the suffragettes?

When did Henry VIII die?

Which of the following lines from Shakespeare’s plays and poems is often still quoted?

Which of the following statements about Mary, Queen of the Scotland, is NOT true?

When did Ireland become unified with England, Wales and Scotland?

What was the estimated population of the British Empire during the Victorian period?

Which of the following countries was NOT part of the Allied Powers during the First World War?

When did the First World War finish?

Florence Nightingale is known for her work on:

Which Act abolished slavery throughout the British Empire in 1833?

Who became King of England when Queen Anne died in 1714?

Who discovered the penicillin in 1928?

How many British casualties were recorded during the first day of the British attack of the Somme in July 1916 during the First World War?

The Welsh dragon on the Welsh flag does not appear on the Union Flag because, when the first Union Flag was created in 1606 from the flags of Scotland and England, the Principality of Wales was already untied with England:

Which two countries developed the ‘Concorde’ aircraft?

Which Scottish physician and researcher co-discovered the insulin used to treat diabetes?

Who was voted the greatest Briton of all time in 2002?

Which of the following social laws were liberalised during the ‘Swinging Sixties’?

Who was the mother of Elizabeth I?

When was the National Health System (NHS) established?

How many Russian and Polish Jews came to Britain to escape prosecution between 1870 and 1914?