Y9 W4 Assessment

In which year did Queen Victoria die?

• 1899

• 1900

• 1901

Who replaced Queen Victoria as monarch?

• her son, Edward, who became King Edward VII

• her son, George, who became King George V

• her husband, Albert, who became King Albert I

In 1908, American Henry Ford began making what was to become one of the best-selling cars ever. What was it called?

• Beetle

• Model T

• E-type

Who, in 1909, made the first successful flight over the English Channel?

• Orville Wright

• Karl Benz

• Louis Bleriot

Whose report from the turn of the twentieth century discovered that nearly one third of Londoners were so poor that they didn't have enough money to eat properly?

• Charles Booth

• Seebohm Rowntree

• David Lloyd George

Beginning in 1906, the series of new laws, ideas and measures brought in to help vulnerable people are commonly known as what?

• the New Charters

• the Poverty Acts

• the Liberal Reforms

In which year did the Titanic sink?

• 1910

• 1912

• 1914

The Titanic sank while crossing which ocean?

• Atlantic

• Pacific

• Arctic

Which of the following groups was prepared to use violence to achieve 'votes for women'?

• the suffragettes

• the suffragists

• the anti-suffragists

In which year did women finally get the same voting rights as men?

• 1918

• 1928

• 1938