Life in the UK test: Tudors, Stuarts and 1707 practice questions

Keep 1603 apart from 1707. In 1603 one king ruled two kingdoms; in 1707 the parliaments of England and Scotland joined. The Civil War and the execution of Charles I (1649) come between them, and the Glorious Revolution is 1688.

Question 1

Henry VIII's rejection of the Pope's authority left which church independent of Rome?

  1. The Church of England
  2. The Church of Scotland
  3. The Methodist Church
  4. A new church founded in Wales in the 18th century

Answer: The Church of England

Henry VIII's rejection of the Pope's authority produced the Church of England, with the monarch at its head. The Church of Scotland is a separate Presbyterian church. Methodism began in the 18th century.

Question 2

James VI of Scotland also became James I of England in 1603. What is that event called?

  1. The Acts of Union
  2. The Glorious Revolution
  3. The Union of the Crowns
  4. The start of the English Civil War

Answer: The Union of the Crowns

In 1603 James VI of Scotland inherited the English throne as James I. That is the Union of the Crowns: one monarch, two kingdoms. The parliaments were not united until the Acts of Union of 1707. The Glorious Revolution was in 1688, and the Civil War began in 1642.

Question 3

What happened to King Charles I in 1649?

  1. He defeated Cromwell and reigned for another twenty years
  2. He was tried and executed
  3. He gave his assent to the Bill of Rights
  4. He united Great Britain and Ireland in one kingdom

Answer: He was tried and executed

Charles I was defeated in the Civil War and executed in 1649. The Bill of Rights belongs to 1689, after the Glorious Revolution, and the union with Ireland was in 1801. Cromwell's republic followed Charles's death; Charles did not defeat him.