Elizabeth I Quiz

Which key term fits this definition of this part of Elizabethan government

This included the people who lived with or near the monarch. These people were mostly nobles and worked as key servants, advisers and friends. The role of the ....... was to advise and entertain the monarch, display wealth and power and influence and persuade the monarch, therefore they had influence rather than power.

• The Privy Council

• Parliament

• House of Lords

• The Royal Court

Which is the correct key term to match this definition?

Each county had a ...................... chosen by the monarch. They were members of nobility. They were entrusted with organising and training a local militia which was a military force of ordinary people rather than soldiers. They would also ensure government policy was followed.

• Constables

• Justice of the Peace

• Lords Lieutenant

• Privy Councillor

Which is the correct definition of divine right

• Someone who becomes head of the Church

• The power to judge if someone is a heretic or not

• The belief that the monarch’s right to rule came from God

England’s woollen and cloth industry was its most important. It produced the finest cloth in Europe.

• True

• False

Elizabeth faced many problems when she became queen. How much debt did she inherit from her sister, Mary I?

• £1.4 million

• £300'000

• £120'000

• £2 million

Which key term matches this definition?

This law made Elizabeth supreme governor of the Church of England - all clergy and royal officials had to swear an oath of allegiance to her as the head of the Church

• Act of Uniformity

• Act of Supremacy

• Royal injunctions

• Book of Common Prayer

Which of these changes was included in the 1559 Religious Settlement to please Protestants

• Priests were allowed to wear some vestments

• The bible was now in English

• The Royal Injunctions allowed some images in churches.

This act established the appearance of churches and the form of the services.

• Act of Supremacy

• Royal Injunctions

• Book of Common Prayer

• Act of Uniformity

In which year did King Philip II ban the import of English cloth to the Netherlands?

• 1563

• 1568

• 1559

• 1566

What was a recusant?

• Catholics who were unwilling to attend the church services laid down by Elizabeth’s Religious Settlement

• Puritans who were unwilling to attend the church services laid down by Elizabeth's Religious Settlement

• People who challenged the teachings of the Catholic Church

• Someone who begged in Elizabethan England.