A Level History A Study Guide Exam Questions with Correct
Answers (Grade A+)
Question 1: Required Quakers to take an oath of allegiance to the king
Answer: Quaker Act 1662
Question 2: Prevented meetings of more than 5 dissenters to take place
Answer: Conventicle Act 1664
Question 3: Monarch who was a strong supporter of religious toleration (although in part because of
his Catholicism)
Answer: James II
Question 4: Freed Catholics and Protestant non-conformists from religious restrictions
Answer: 1687 Declaration of Indulgence
Question 5: Event showing the dominance of Anglicanism and opposition against James II after the
1687 Declaration of Indulgence
Answer: Trial of the Seven Bishops
Question 6: Legal case that allowed James II to exempt individuals from the Test and Corporation Act
Answer: Godden vs Hales
Question 7: Set up by James II and reminded people of the Prerogative Court of the High Commission
used by Charles I
Answer: Court of
Ecclesiastical Commission
Question 8: What action did seven leading political figures including 3 Whigs, 3 Anglican Lords and
the Bishop of London take in 1688
Answer: Appealed to William of Orange to take the throne.
Question 9: Wife of James II, married in 1673, who bore him a son in 1688
Answer: Mary of Modena
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,Question 10: Event of 1666, rumours circulated that Catholics were behind the incident
Answer: Great Fire of London
Question 11: After 1683 Charles II used this as an opportunity to weaken the Whigs and focus
concerns on their dissenter allies
Answer: Rye
House Plot
Question 12: Period from 1683 to 86 when the Triennial Act was ignored and Charles II brought town
corporations under control and depended on subsidies from the French
Answer: Second Stuart Absolutism
Question 13: Appealed to the Protestant majority and allied to dissenters
Answer: Whigs
Question 14: Stood for the King's authority and the Anglican church
Answer: Tories
Question 15: Leader of the Whigs and in opposition to the policies of Charles II after 1672
Answer: Earl Of Shaftesbury
Question 16: Treaty between Charles II and King Louis XIV securing French subsidies, secretly
promised a conversion to Catholicism and allied with the French
Answer: Treaty of Dover 1670
Question 17: Fictitious plot reported by Titus Oates to put the Duke of York on the throne
Answer: Popish Plot 1678
Question 18: Exploited the Popish Plot of 1678 to weaken the Tories and their leader Danby
Answer: Earl of Shaftesbury and the Whigs
Question 19: In 1669 this figures Catholicism became public knowledge
Answer: Duke of York
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, Question 20: Political crisis 1679-81 led by the Whigs that attempted to remove the Catholic Duke of
York from the succession
Answer: Exclusion
Crisis
Question 21: Religious policy during the Protectorate 1653 to 1659 which allowed for toleration of
Protestant sects but not Catholics
Answer: "Liberty to tender conscience"
Question 22: Required Catholics to take an oath denying their basic beliefs, if they refused two thirds
of their lands and good could be confiscated
Answer: Oath of Abjuration 1643 and 1656
Question 23: Passed by the Rump in 1650 removed the requirement to attend an Anglican Church but
still didn't give Catholics freedom
Answer: Toleration Act 1650
Question 24: Charles I was a patron of which Catholic artist?
Answer: reuben
Question 25: Group within the church who supported the 'beauty of holiness' and promoted to top
posts by Charles I in the 1630s
Answer: Arminians
Question 26: French Catholic princess married to Charles I in 1625
Answer: Henrietta Maria
Question 27: Style of monarchy in France and associated by many with Catholicism
Answer: Absolutism
Question 28: Example of a member of Queen Henrietta Maria's household, expected to follow
Catholicism
Answer: Jeffrey Hudson
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Answers (Grade A+)
Question 1: Required Quakers to take an oath of allegiance to the king
Answer: Quaker Act 1662
Question 2: Prevented meetings of more than 5 dissenters to take place
Answer: Conventicle Act 1664
Question 3: Monarch who was a strong supporter of religious toleration (although in part because of
his Catholicism)
Answer: James II
Question 4: Freed Catholics and Protestant non-conformists from religious restrictions
Answer: 1687 Declaration of Indulgence
Question 5: Event showing the dominance of Anglicanism and opposition against James II after the
1687 Declaration of Indulgence
Answer: Trial of the Seven Bishops
Question 6: Legal case that allowed James II to exempt individuals from the Test and Corporation Act
Answer: Godden vs Hales
Question 7: Set up by James II and reminded people of the Prerogative Court of the High Commission
used by Charles I
Answer: Court of
Ecclesiastical Commission
Question 8: What action did seven leading political figures including 3 Whigs, 3 Anglican Lords and
the Bishop of London take in 1688
Answer: Appealed to William of Orange to take the throne.
Question 9: Wife of James II, married in 1673, who bore him a son in 1688
Answer: Mary of Modena
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,Question 10: Event of 1666, rumours circulated that Catholics were behind the incident
Answer: Great Fire of London
Question 11: After 1683 Charles II used this as an opportunity to weaken the Whigs and focus
concerns on their dissenter allies
Answer: Rye
House Plot
Question 12: Period from 1683 to 86 when the Triennial Act was ignored and Charles II brought town
corporations under control and depended on subsidies from the French
Answer: Second Stuart Absolutism
Question 13: Appealed to the Protestant majority and allied to dissenters
Answer: Whigs
Question 14: Stood for the King's authority and the Anglican church
Answer: Tories
Question 15: Leader of the Whigs and in opposition to the policies of Charles II after 1672
Answer: Earl Of Shaftesbury
Question 16: Treaty between Charles II and King Louis XIV securing French subsidies, secretly
promised a conversion to Catholicism and allied with the French
Answer: Treaty of Dover 1670
Question 17: Fictitious plot reported by Titus Oates to put the Duke of York on the throne
Answer: Popish Plot 1678
Question 18: Exploited the Popish Plot of 1678 to weaken the Tories and their leader Danby
Answer: Earl of Shaftesbury and the Whigs
Question 19: In 1669 this figures Catholicism became public knowledge
Answer: Duke of York
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, Question 20: Political crisis 1679-81 led by the Whigs that attempted to remove the Catholic Duke of
York from the succession
Answer: Exclusion
Crisis
Question 21: Religious policy during the Protectorate 1653 to 1659 which allowed for toleration of
Protestant sects but not Catholics
Answer: "Liberty to tender conscience"
Question 22: Required Catholics to take an oath denying their basic beliefs, if they refused two thirds
of their lands and good could be confiscated
Answer: Oath of Abjuration 1643 and 1656
Question 23: Passed by the Rump in 1650 removed the requirement to attend an Anglican Church but
still didn't give Catholics freedom
Answer: Toleration Act 1650
Question 24: Charles I was a patron of which Catholic artist?
Answer: reuben
Question 25: Group within the church who supported the 'beauty of holiness' and promoted to top
posts by Charles I in the 1630s
Answer: Arminians
Question 26: French Catholic princess married to Charles I in 1625
Answer: Henrietta Maria
Question 27: Style of monarchy in France and associated by many with Catholicism
Answer: Absolutism
Question 28: Example of a member of Queen Henrietta Maria's household, expected to follow
Catholicism
Answer: Jeffrey Hudson
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