1. Who was the King of England at the start of the civil war?

    Henry VIII

    James I

    James II

    Charles I

2. In which year did the civil war begin?

    1642

    1742

    1842

    1942

3. What was the name of one of Charles I's deeply unpopular taxes?

    poll tax

    income tax

    ship money

    inheritance tax

4. Who was the French catholic princess who married Charles I?

    Henrietta Maria

    Marie Antoinette

    Maria del Carmen Grande Martin

    Marie Osmond

5. When did Charles dissolve Parliament and start what became known as the "eleven years tyranny"

6. What word means a politcal system where there is no monarch?

    republic

    monarchy

    democracy

    commonwealth

7. A war is a war within a country

8. Who was Charles I's deeply unpopular advisor?

    Farrow

    Cromwell

    Bradshaw

    Buckingham

9. Peoples' dislike of Charles' taxes is an cause of the English Civil war

10. Objections and suspicions that followed the marriage of Charles to a French catholic are a cause of the English civil war

11. These people were the first people to protest about the Roman Catholic Church. Who were they?

    catholics

    protestants

    baptists

    mormons

12. Very serious protestants were called.....

    capitalists

    methodists

    moonies

    puritans

13. Which battle ended Charles I's attempt to capture London in 1642?

    Turnham Green

    Worcester

    Preston

    Marston Moor

14. In which year was Charles I beheaded?

15. Which M.P. accused Charles' advisors Laud and Stafford of high treason and had them arrested in 1641?

    John Pym

    John Bull

    John Prescott

    John Major

16. The Star Chamber was a deeply unpopular court used by Charles to punish his enemies before the civil war.

    True

    False

17. Which battle ended the first civil war with the capture of the King?

    Preston

    Newbury

    Naseby

    Worcester

18. Who changed sides in 1648 and fought with the royalists at the battle of Preston?

    the puritans

    the scots

    the New Model Army

    the welsh

19. Who became ruler of England after the death of Oliver Cromwell in 1658?

    Charles II

    John Pym

    Richard Cromwell

    the army

20. Who became King in 1660 but accepted the limits on the King's powers first agreed in 1641?

    Charles II

    Charles III

    James II

    Henry VIII