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