7th Grade History                                  Name: _________________________________________  Score:
Teacher: Mr. Cap   Quiz over  Chapter 15  The English Nation

1.  What is another name for the Modern Age?________________________________________________

2.  What 4 things did the English colonists bring to America? ___________________________________________

3.  What did the Celts do before they entered battle? __________________________________________

  4.  Name a Celtic hero.___________________________________________

  5.  Anglo Saxons conquered Britian in the 5th century.___________________________

  6.  Who was the 1st great King of England? _______________________________

  7.  ________________ the Dane ruled England, Denmark, and Norway as one great empire.

  8.  The Normans (French) conquer England in 1066 when _______________ of Normandy won the Battle of Hastings.

  9.   What was the Doomsday Book?_____________________________________________________________

  10.  How did the Plantagent get their name? ________________________________________________________

  11. During who's reign is the legend of Robin Hood?__________________________________________________

  12.  Who began to develop all laws common to all Englishmen and trial by jury. ___________________________

  13.  The Hated King John most hated king of English history.  He was forced to sign the ____________________

  14. What did England lead the world in? _________________________________________________________

  15.  War of the Roses   civil war in England, Henry Tudor won the Battle of Bosworth Field.    Why was this war 

          so-named?____________________________________________________________________________

  16.  Name three geographical discoveries that took place during Henry VII's reign 1485-1509 _________________

__________________________________________________________________________________________

  17.  Why did rulers arrange marriages for their children?_______________________________________________

  18.  Why did Henry VIII need special permission from the pope to marry Catherine? _______________________

  19. Henry VIII was a strong Roman Catholic, the pope even called him the " Defender of the ________________ " .

  20.  Spain was angry with England and sent a great flotilla of ships called the ______________ _______________.

  21.    Who was Good Queen Bess?____________________

  22.  Who was the greates writer the world has ever known?______________________________

  23.  What did England's defeat of the Spanish Armada assure her?____________________________________