Lesson Y7-U06-L05

The Spanish Armada & Tudor Society Quiz: KS3 History, Unit 6

20 questions

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Lesson Y7-U06-L05, The Spanish Armada & Tudor Society: 20 multiple choice questions for the KS3 History (National Curriculum), Unit 6: Year 7: The Tudors, written with Revision Ninja.

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The 20 questions

  1. In what year did the Spanish Armada sail against England?

    • 1588
    • 1558
    • 1649
    • 1603

  2. Which Spanish king sent the Armada against England?

    • Philip II
    • Charles V
    • Ferdinand II
    • Henry VIII

  3. What was the primary military objective of the Spanish Armada?

    • Capture Elizabeth
    • Burn London
    • Blockade Plymouth
    • Escort an invasion army

  4. What naval tactic did the English use against the anchored Armada at Calais?

    • Ramming galleons
    • Underwater mines
    • Cannon chains
    • Fireships

  5. How many burning vessels did England send into the Armada at Calais?

    • Eight
    • Twenty
    • Twelve
    • Four

  6. Which battle saw English guns batter the broken Spanish formation after the fireships?

    • Battle of Hastings
    • Battle of Culloden
    • Battle of Bosworth
    • Battle of Gravelines

  7. What did Protestants call the storm that scattered the Armada?

    • The Calais Storm
    • The Catholic Tempest
    • The Spanish Gale
    • The Protestant Wind

  8. Which execution in 1587 gave Philip II a major motive to launch the Armada?

    • Lady Jane Grey
    • Anne Boleyn
    • Mary, Queen of Scots
    • Thomas More

  9. Where were many Spanish ships wrecked during storms on their return journey?

    • Denmark
    • Ireland
    • Wales
    • Portugal

  10. What term was used in Tudor England for a homeless person wandering without work?

    • Peasant
    • Monk
    • Merchant
    • Vagrant

  11. Which belief system taught that God ordered Tudor society from top to bottom?

    • Great Chain of Being
    • Social Darwinism
    • Feudal Hierarchy
    • Divine Right

  12. What tax did the Elizabethan Poor Law of 1601 require each parish to collect?

    • Hearth tax
    • Poor rate
    • Ship money
    • Tithes

  13. Which group sat at the very top of the Tudor social hierarchy?

    • Monarch and nobles
    • Wealthy merchants
    • Church bishops
    • Landowning yeomen

  14. A family living in a mud-and-straw hut eating pottage belonged to which group?

    • Merchants
    • Yeomen farmers
    • Craftsmen
    • Poor labourers

  15. Which criteria help historians judge the historical significance of an event?

    • Scale and duration
    • Date and origin
    • Cost and location
    • Intent and secrecy

  16. Which Tudor group was deemed deserving of charity because they could not work?

    • Able-bodied vagrants
    • The sick and elderly
    • Idle vagabonds
    • Sturdy beggars

  17. Whose intervention did the English medal attribute the defeat of the Spanish Armada to?

    • Queen Elizabeth
    • God
    • Sir Francis Drake
    • The Parliament

  18. What major geographical problem did the Armada face when meeting Parma's army?

    • Narrow rocky straits
    • Massive coral reefs
    • No safe deep-water port
    • Frozen shallow waters

  19. What key tactical advantage did smaller English ships have against the Armada?

    • Heavy boarding hooks
    • Close-combat archers
    • Fire ship weapons
    • Long-range cannon

  20. What factor ultimately destroyed the most Spanish ships and sailors during the 1588 campaign?

    • English cannon fire
    • Coastal storms
    • Fire ship attacks
    • Naval boarding raids

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