Reading Check History of England The Reformation

1. The focus of your reading covered a brief history of the Restoration and the eighteenth century, so roughly the years

• 1500 - 1650

• 1800 - 1899

• 1625 - 1799

• 1850 - 1950

Mary, the daughter of Catholic King James II was a staunch Protestant, so the powerful Protestants in England invited Mary and her husband, William of Orange to be King William III and Queen Mary II in 1668. This transition where the will of the governed determined who would rule was called _________ .

• the Restoration

• the Glorious Revolution

• the Political Transformation

• the New Deal

6. In 1653, _____________ seized power and ruled as Lord Protector of England until his death in 1658.

5. Who was the ruling monarch when the English Civil War began?

• Queen Elizabeth I

• Henry VI

• Edward I

• Charles I

4. The English Civil War began in

• 1642

• 1776

• 1650

• 1789

3. The Roundheads were mostly members of the aristocracy and anti-Puritan.

• True

• False

The Cavaliers were pro-Catholic and believed in the devine right of king.

• True

• False

2. There are three quotations that begin your reading selection. The one that begins, " When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands...," is

• from Oliver Cromwell's speech.

• from Daniel Defoe's "London Life."

• from the Declaration of Independence.

• from a Sir Francis Bacon essay.

The Industrial Revolution began around

• 1660

• 1840

• 1700

• 1950

During the period you read about, two European monarchs were beheaded. They were England's ________ and France's __________.

• Queen Anne and King Louis XIV

• King James II and Napoleon I

• King Charles I and King Louis XVI

• King George I and William of Orange