Lesson 3

3 Challenge to the religious settlement Quiz: Pearson Edexcel History, Unit 8

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Lesson 3, Challenge to the religious settlement: 20 multiple choice questions for the Pearson Edexcel GCSE History (1HI0), Unit 8: Early Elizabethan England, 1558–88, written with Revision Ninja.

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The 20 questions

  1. What was a key demand of the Puritan challenge to the settlement?

    • Restore Latin
    • Remove vestments
    • Recognise the Pope
    • Appoint cardinals

  2. Which pope excommunicated Elizabeth in 1570?

    • Paul III
    • Pius V
    • Clement VII
    • Julius II

  3. Which external power supported the Catholic challenge to Elizabeth?

    • Dutch rebels
    • Ottoman Empire
    • Holy Roman Calvinists
    • Papacy and Spain

  4. What was the main aim of seminary priests trained abroad?

    • Sustain Catholicism
    • Draft new laws
    • Negotiate treaties
    • Collect taxes

  5. Who founded the English seminary at Douai in 1568?

    • Cardinal William Allen
    • Robert Persons
    • Thomas Cartwright
    • Edmund Campion

  6. Which movement favoured a Presbyterian church structure?

    • The Jacobite movement
    • The Presbyterian movement
    • The Lollard movement
    • The Chartist movement

  7. Which 1581 law penalised Catholics who refused church attendance?

    • Uniformity Act
    • Heresy Act
    • Recusancy fines
    • Treason Act

  8. Name the Jesuit priests who led the 1580 mission to England.

    • Campion and Persons
    • Gardiner and Bonner
    • Wolsey and More
    • Knox and Melville

  9. What was the main political danger posed by the Catholic challenge?

    • Agricultural strikes
    • Plots against Elizabeth
    • Economic boycotts
    • Naval blockades

  10. What penalty did Elizabethan laws introduce for Catholic priests?

    • Exile abroad
    • Heavy fines
    • Life imprisonment
    • Death penalty

  11. Which Puritan figure was known for a call for a Presbyterian system?

    • Richard Hooker
    • Matthew Parker
    • John Whitgift
    • Thomas Cartwright

  12. Which groups posed the main religious challenges to Elizabeth's settlement?

    • Lollards and Puritans
    • Calvinists and Lollards
    • Catholics and Lutherans
    • Puritans and Catholics

  13. What did the 1570 papal bull do regarding Elizabeth I?

    • Banned all trade
    • Excommunicated the Queen
    • Declared war
    • Recognised her reign

  14. Which major 1569 rising demonstrated northern Catholic opposition?

    • Pilgrimage of Grace
    • Wyatt's Rebellion
    • Prayer Book Rebellion
    • The Northern Rising

  15. What was the typical Puritan view of bishops in the Church?

    • Make bishops royal advisors
    • Abolish bishops
    • Increase their power
    • Appoint more bishops

  16. What did Puritans want to be central to church services?

    • Decorated altars
    • Latin mass
    • Sermons and preaching
    • Ornate music

  17. Whose authority did the Elizabethan religious settlement reject?

    • The Archbishop
    • The Monarch
    • The Pope
    • Parliament

  18. Which group argued the Church had retained too many Catholic features?

    • The Puritans
    • The Scottish Covenanters
    • The Jesuits
    • The papal nuncios

  19. What financial penalty did recusants face for missing church?

    • Recusancy fines
    • Land seizure
    • Import tariffs
    • Double taxes

  20. What authority did Catholic critics want restored to England?

    • Episcopal rule
    • Monastic control
    • Papal supremacy
    • Conciliar power

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