- 1. Who was the first Plantagenet king of England?
A) Edward I
B) Richard the Lionheart
C) Henry II
D) William the Conqueror
- 2. Which English king signed the Magna Carta in 1215?
A) King Edward II
B) King Richard III
C) King John
D) King Henry VIII
- 3. Who was the Archbishop of Canterbury famously murdered in Canterbury Cathedral in 1170?
A) William Tyndale
B) Thomas More
C) Thomas Wolsey
D) Thomas Becket
- 4. Who led the Norman Conquest of England in 1066?
A) William the Conqueror
B) Harold Godwinson
C) Henry I
D) Edward the Confessor
- 5. Which English king was known as 'The Lionheart'?
A) Henry III
B) Richard I
C) Edward II
D) John
- 6. The Hundred Years' War was fought between England and which other country?
A) Portugal
B) France
C) Spain
D) Scotland
- 7. Which medieval English king was known for his six wives?
A) Richard II
B) Stephen
C) Henry VIII
D) Edward IV
- 8. What was the name of the civil war in medieval England fought between the House of Lancaster and the House of York?
A) Peasants' Revolt
B) Wars of the Roses
C) Baronial Wars
D) Anarchy
- 9. Who was the first Tudor monarch of England?
A) Henry VII
B) Elizabeth I
C) Mary I
D) Edward VI
- 10. Which English king was known as 'Longshanks'?
A) Edward I
B) Henry II
C) John
D) Richard II
- 11. Which medieval English king was deposed during the Peasants' Revolt of 1381?
A) Henry IV
B) Richard II
C) Edward III
D) Henry VI
- 12. Who was the author of 'The Canterbury Tales'?
A) Geoffrey Chaucer
B) Thomas Malory
C) William Langland
D) John Gower
- 13. During the Middle Ages, what was the main language used by the English nobility?
A) French
B) Old English
C) Latin
D) German
- 14. The War of the Roses was a struggle for the English throne between which two rival houses?
A) York and Lancaster
B) Tudor and Stuart
C) Plantagenet and Capet
D) Norman and Saxon
- 15. Who led a peasant uprising against the English nobility and clergy in 1381?
A) Robin Hood
B) John Ball
C) Jack Cade
D) Wat Tyler
- 16. Which famous English cathedral was consecrated in 1093, becoming a symbol of Norman power in England?
A) York Minster
B) Durham Cathedral
C) Canterbury Cathedral
D) Westminster Abbey
- 17. Who was the last Anglo-Saxon king of England before the Norman Conquest?
A) Edward the Confessor
B) Edmund Ironside
C) Harold Godwinson
D) Cnut the Great
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