Test 36

The UK is governed by the parliament sitting in Westminster.

In 1284 King Edward I of England introduced the Statute of Rhuddlan, which annexed Wales to the Crown of England.

Some public services, such as education, are controlled by the devolved administrations.

The Northern Ireland Assembly has been suspended on a few occasions.

These settlements were known as plantations.

In England, Wales and Scotland, Magistrates and Justices of the Peace (JPs) are members of the local community and they usually work unpaid and do not need legal qualifications.

One of the traditional characters of the pantomimes is the Dame, a woman played by a man.

Most people live in towns and cities but much of Britain is still countryside.

During the Wars of the Roses, the symbol of Lancaster was a red rose.

Many of the Viking invaders stayed in Britain – especially in the east and north of England in an area known as the Danelaw.

The Reform Act of 1832 had greatly increased the number of people with the right to vote.

York Minster is a famous example of stained glass used on the windows of some cathedrals during the middle ages.

The monarch is the head of the Church of England.

The Foreign Secretary is responsible for managing relationships with foreign countries.

Poems which survive from the Middle Ages include Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales and a poem called Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, about one of the knights at the court of King Arthur.

Any man who forces a woman to have sex, including a woman’s husband, can be charged with rape.

In 1314 the Scottish, led by Robert the Bruce, defeated the English at the Battle of Bannockburn.

This statement is true.

English kings fought a long war with France, called the Hundred Years War (even though it actually lasted 116 years).

Gordon Brown took over as Prime Minister from Tony Blair in 2007.

The Life in the UK test is usually taken is English, although special arrangements can be made if you wish to take it in Welsh or Scottish Gaelic.

The burial place of one of the Anglo-Saxon kings was at Sutton Hoo in modern Suffolk.

Evelyn Waugh wrote satirical novels, including Decline and Fall and Scoop. He is perhaps best known for Brideshead Revisited.

Skara Brae on Orkney, off the north coast of Scotland, is the best preserved prehistoric village in northern Europe.