Starter quiz
- What is meant by the term 'golden age'?
- a time when lots of gold statues were made
- a time when gold was very common
- a time of peace, prosperity and plenty ✓
- a time when there were more old people than young people
- a time when the country achieved many of its goals
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- What building material did Elizabethans use to show off their wealth in 'prodigy houses'?
- wood
- clay
- pearls
- glass ✓
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- Which decade saw a period of particularly bad harvests which led to famine in England?
- 1550s
- 1570s
- 1590s ✓
- 1610s
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- Parliament was furious with Elizabeth in 1601 about her use of which one of the following:
- bad harvests
- monopolies ✓
- privateers
- royal progresses
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- Before Elizabeth's reign, what religious establishments had helped to provide food for the poor?
- colonies
- monasteries ✓
- prodigy houses
- theatres
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- Who led the two factions in Elizabeth's court at the end of her reign? Choose two answers.
- Robert Devereux ✓
- Robert Dudley
- Robert Cecil ✓
- William Cecil
- William Parry
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