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Edexcel GCSE History Early Elizabethan England overview quiz quiz

13questions. Pick an answer and you'll see why right away.

  1. What title did the Act of Supremacy give Elizabeth?

  2. Why is the Religious Settlement of 1559 described as a compromise?

  3. Who challenged the Religious Settlement by demanding further reform?

  4. Why was Mary Queen of Scots so dangerous to Elizabeth?

  5. What happened in the Revolt of the Northern Earls in 1569?

  6. What did the Pope do to Elizabeth in 1570?

  7. Which plot finally provided the proof to execute Mary Queen of Scots?

  8. Which English privateer raided Spanish ships and 'singed the King of Spain's beard' at Cadiz in 1587?

  9. Why was the Spanish Armada defeated in 1588?

  10. What was a major cause of rising poverty in Elizabethan England?

  11. How did the Elizabethans view the poor?

  12. What did Francis Drake achieve between 1577 and 1580?

  13. Why do historians debate whether Elizabethan England was a 'golden age'?