Lesson 3

3 Cromwell and government, 1534–40 Quiz: Pearson Edexcel History, Unit 7

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The 20 questions

  1. What did the Court of Augmentations manage from 1536?

    • Foreign tariffs
    • Customs duties
    • Monastic property
    • Royal navy

  2. What did the Laws in Wales Acts of 1535–36 achieve?

    • Merged with Scotland
    • Abolished taxation
    • Integrated Wales
    • Independent parliaments

  3. What was the primary aim of Cromwell's financial reforms?

    • Abolishing all taxes
    • Funding monasteries
    • Centralising revenue
    • Privatising mints

  4. How did Thomas Cromwell primarily use Parliament during the 1530s?

    • To command armies
    • To veto laws
    • To pass statutes
    • To elect bishops

  5. What severe penalty was introduced by the Treason Act of 1534?

    • Heavy financial fines
    • Exile from England
    • Death for denying supremacy
    • Imprisonment for life

  6. What did the Statute of Uses in 1536 restrict?

    • Selling monastery land
    • Avoiding feudal dues
    • Collecting church tithes
    • Drafting new wills

  7. What was the main goal of Cromwell's government reforms?

    • Ecclesiastical independence
    • Feudal decentralisation
    • Democratic parliamentary rule
    • Centralised royal administration

  8. What did the Statute of Wills in 1540 allow landowners to do?

    • Seize monastic estates
    • Overturn royal decrees
    • Leave land by will
    • Avoid all land taxes

  9. Why did the crown need better revenue records in the 1530s?

    • New land and taxes
    • Declining trade tariffs
    • Rising noble salaries
    • Foreign war debts

  10. Which feature best describes Cromwell's governing approach?

    • Administrative reform
    • Military dictatorship
    • Ecclesiastical rule
    • Feudal decentralisation

  11. Whose authority did Cromwell's reforms extend over Church courts?

    • Local magistrates
    • The Pope
    • The monarch
    • Parliament

  12. Which region was affected by the 1535 Act of Union?

    • Calais
    • Wales
    • Ireland
    • Scotland

  13. What did the Court of Augmentations manage?

    • Feudal reliefs
    • Peerage taxes
    • Monastic land income
    • Customs duties

  14. What key concept did Cromwell's government emphasise to support the break with Rome?

    • Papal authority
    • Conciliar rule
    • Clerical immunity
    • Royal supremacy

  15. How were Cromwell's royal officials tied to the crown?

    • Papal dispensation
    • Oaths and office
    • Guild membership
    • Hereditary titles

  16. Which institution was placed under royal control by Cromwell?

    • The Universities
    • The Guilds
    • The Church
    • The Monasteries

  17. Which legal system were Welsh landholders brought under?

    • Canon law
    • Brehon law
    • Roman civil law
    • English law

  18. What was the main benefit of Cromwell's fiscal reforms?

    • Steadier royal income
    • Immediate debt clearance
    • Abolished taxation
    • Unlimited foreign credit

  19. What measure most strengthened crown finances after 1536?

    • Fines on nobles
    • Monastic wealth transfer
    • New merchant tariffs
    • Foreign tribute payments

  20. How did Cromwell use Parliament to support royal authority?

    • To veto royal policy
    • As legislative tool
    • As a judicial court
    • To collect local taxes

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