Macbeth

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Select the correct year that the play Macbeth was written in? Options: 1603, 1605, 1606, 1609

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1606

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Pick the momentous event that took place the year before the play was written: The Spanish Armada, The Great fire of London, The Gunpowder plot, The Great Plague

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The Gunpowder plot

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Choose the monarch who died in 1603: Mary, James I, Edward VI, Elizabeth

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Elizabeth

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Pick the monarch who ascended to the throne in 1603: Charles I, James I, Charles II, James II

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James I

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The era in which the play is written is known as the

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Jacobean Age

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James I, was initially James VI of which country? (Options: Wales, Ireland, Scotland)

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Scotland

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James I was obsessed with which element of the supernatural?

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Witches and Witchcraft

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James wrote a book about the supernatural called

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Daemonologie

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This was the belief that God had designed an ordered system for both nature and humankind within which every creature and person had an allotted place. It was considered an offence against God for anyone to try to alter their station in life.

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Great Chain of Being

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This was the belief that the power of monarchs was given directly by God, and thus monarchs were answerable only to God

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Divine Right of Kings