Breadth Study and Interpretations overview quiz - WJEC A-Level History quiz

Detailed factual knowledge of the events of one single year in isolation

Arguments about change and continuity over a long period

Memorising and reproducing one named historian's published view word for word

Evaluating a single primary source for its reliability and usefulness

AO1 only

AO2

AO3

AO4

Summarise the passage and restate its main points in your own words

Agree with the historian and find further evidence to back the claim

Describe the historian's life, career and the influences on their writing

Judge how convincing the interpretation is, using your own knowledge

The monarch became head of the church, so conformity tested allegiance

It abolished the monarchy and handed church government to elected assemblies

It made religion wholly irrelevant to politics and to questions of loyalty

It guaranteed full toleration for every faith, so belief no longer mattered

The Hundred Years War between England and France

The Civil War of the 1640s

The dynastic Wars of the Roses of the fifteenth century

The Crimean War fought against Russia in the 1850s

Wyatt's Rebellion and the northern Pilgrimage of Grace under Henry VIII

The Peasants' Revolt of 1381 and Jack Cade's Rebellion of 1450

The Western (Prayer Book) Rising and Kett's Rebellion

The Jacobite rising and the Duke of Monmouth's western rebellion

It was the single worst constitutional crisis in the whole of English history

There was no significant religious change at all during these troubled years

Edward VI ruled personally throughout, without any regency or protectorate

The monarchy and its institutions survived intact, so 'crisis' is overstated

They ask different questions and emphasise different evidence

They almost always make careless factual mistakes in their research

They deliberately ignore all of the available primary source evidence

They are forbidden by professional rules from ever disagreeing publicly

Only the words of the passage itself, with nothing brought in from outside

Your own knowledge of the period

A dictionary of historical terms and key definitions

A single contemporary primary source from the period

Reaching a clear, well-supported overall judgement at the end

Using precise and carefully selected evidence throughout the answer

Summarising the passage instead of evaluating it

Correctly identifying the historian's central argument before testing it