Emergence of Modern Sport

Pre-industrial revolution recreational activities included joint activities between gentry and peasants.

• True
• False

Who could only take part in recreational activities at annual festivals, fairs and holidays such as Christmas?

• Gentry
• Peasants

Gentry or the upper classes took part in which types of activities?

• Hunting, Real Tennis and dancing
• Mob football
• Bare Fist fighting
• Baiting

Which characteristics of society in pre-industrial Britain are not true of the time? 

• Limited communication and transport
• Widespread illiteracy
• Very limited free time
• People lived mainly in the towns and cities

Characteristics of popular recreation  (pre-industrial Britain) e.g. Mob football include:

• Violent and cruel
• Only on festival days
• Simple with unwritten rules
• All of the above

Who is regarded with reforming the English Public School system?

• Dr Thomas Arnold
• Baden Powell
• Roger Bannister
• Dr James Clegg

Dr Thomas Arnold's aim was to preach good moral behaviour - what movement was this part?

• Wesleyan Methodists
• Muscular Christianity
• Muscular Catholicism 
• YMCA

What term is defined as the combination of physical effort and moral integrity (sportsmanship)?

• House System
• Commercialism
• Athleticism
• Gamesmanship

What term is defined as: the gradual organisation and defining of the rules (e.g. for the actual playing of a sport, as well as the conduct and behaviour)?

• Codification
• Rationalisation
• Rational Recreation
• Urbanisation

In the 19th Century, these were sports pastimes for the lower classes which were designed by middle classes to be well ordered, organised and controlled.

• Codification
• Rationalisation
• Rational Recreation
• Urbanisation