UNIT 2: HISTORY

What is Stonehenge?

• a royal castle

• a prehistoric monument

• a historic document

What was Magna Carta?

• a royal castle

• a prehistoric monument

• a historic document

Where is Hadrian's Wall?

• in London

• in Edinburgh

• on the English-Scottish border

Who won the Civil War in the seventeenth century?

• the Cavaliers

• the Roundheads

• the Vikings

In what part of England is Wessex?

• the north-west

• the north-east

• the south-west

Which of these place names is of partly Roman origin?

• Birmingham

• Leeds

• Manchester

Which people settles in large numbers in Britain?

• the Anglo-Saxons

• the Normans

• the Romans

In which century was there a single parliament for the whole of Britain and Ireland?

• the seventeenth

• the eighteenth

• the nineteenth

In which century did England and Scotland first have the same monarch?

• the seventeenth

• the eighteenth

• the nineteenth

• the twentieth

In which century did England and Scotland first have the same parliament?

• the seventeenth

• the eighteenth

• the nineteenth

• the twentieth