A Level History A Comprehensive Exam Questions with Correct
Answers (Grade A+)
Question 1: What was the name of Charles I's favourite at the start of his reign?
Answer: Duke of Buckingham
Question 2: Name two military defeats that caused opposition in parliament to Charles' favourite
Answer: Cadiz and La Rochelle
Question 3: What did Charles levy that was equivalent to 5 parliamentary subsidies in 1626
Answer: Forced Loan
Question 4: What did MPs present in 1628 that expressed their grievances?
Answer: Petition of Right
Question 5: What began and then ended in 1629 and 1640?
Answer: Personal
Rule
Question 6: What was extended as a national tax in 1635 and continued until 1640?
Answer: Ship Money
Question 7: Who refused to pay a tax in 1637 and went to trial?
Answer: John
Hampden
Question 8: What name is given to the physical changes to the church under Laud?
Answer: Beauty of Holiness
Question 9: What form of Protestantism did the majority of Scots follow?
Answer: Presbyterianism
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,Question 10: Name the wars with the scots that ended in defeats for Charles following National
Covenant
Answer: Bishops Wars
Question 11: What was summoned in 1640 and ended in 1642?
Answer: Long
Parliament
Question 12: What was put before parliament in December 1640 and aimed to reform the church?
Answer: Root and Branch petition.
Question 13: What piece of legislation was used to execute the Earl of Strafford in May 1641?
Answer: Bill of Attainder
Question 14: What term can be used to describe those MPs who were opposed to Pym's demands and
methods and sided with the King?
Answer: Constitutional royalists
Question 15: What did Charles attempt in January 1642 that escalated tension?
Answer: Arrest of 5 MPs
Question 16: What peace treaty did parliament offer Charles in 1646?
Answer: Newcastle Propositions
Question 17: What became politicised after the end of the Civil War?
Answer: New Model Army
Question 18: Which religious group dominated parliament and which other group dominated the army
after the Civil War?
Answer: Presbyterians and Independents
Question 19: What peace treaty did the New Model Army offer Charles in 1647?
Answer: Heads of Proposals
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,Question 20: What did the signing of the Engagement with the scots start in 1648?
Answer: Second Civil War
Question 21: What was the army's written response to the outbreak of a Second Civil War?
Answer: Army Remonstrance
Question 22: What event allowed the army to use parliament to put the king on trial in 1649?
Answer: Pride's Purge
Question 23: Period of British history between 1649 and 1660, alternative name for the Republic
Answer: Interregnum
Question 24: Republican government between 1649 and 1653
Answer: Rump
Parliament
Question 25: Republican government lasting months in 1653
Answer: Nominated Assembly
Question 26: Republican government between 1653 and 1659
Answer: Protectorate
Question 27: What were the proposed reforms of the legal system called that the Rump failed to pass?
Answer: Hale Commission 1651
Question 28: The Rump depended on a large standing army that created what problem for the Rump
in gaining support?
Answer: High taxation
Question 29: Where did Cromwell invade in 1649 in order to crush a rebellion?
Answer: Ireland
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, Question 30: Where did Oliver Cromwell conquer in 1650?
Answer: Scotland
Question 31: What was the Rump discussing that was the final straw for Cromwell, leading to him to
dissolving the Rump?
Answer: Recruiter
elections
Question 32: Nicknames for the Nominated Assembly
Answer: Barebones
parliament or Parliament of Saints
Question 33: Radical saints pushed for this issue, it led the conservative "sinners" to call for the
closure of the Nominated Assembly
Answer: Abolishing Tithes
Question 34: Name of the constitution that the Protectorate in place
Answer: Instrument of Government
Question 35: Cromwell faced opposition from which group inside the Protectorate Parliaments?
Answer: Republican MPs excluded from
the Rump
Question 36: Put in place in 1655 causing discontent amongst the gentry who felt they interfered with
local affairs
Answer: Major-Generals
Question 37: Vetted and rejected members of the clergy looking for quality of preaching and flexibility
of belief during the Protectorate
Answer: Triers and Ejectors
Question 38: Constitution presented to Oliver Cromwell in which he was offered the title of king,
Cromwell accepted a revised version because of opposition from the army
Answer: Humble Petition and Advice
1657
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Answers (Grade A+)
Question 1: What was the name of Charles I's favourite at the start of his reign?
Answer: Duke of Buckingham
Question 2: Name two military defeats that caused opposition in parliament to Charles' favourite
Answer: Cadiz and La Rochelle
Question 3: What did Charles levy that was equivalent to 5 parliamentary subsidies in 1626
Answer: Forced Loan
Question 4: What did MPs present in 1628 that expressed their grievances?
Answer: Petition of Right
Question 5: What began and then ended in 1629 and 1640?
Answer: Personal
Rule
Question 6: What was extended as a national tax in 1635 and continued until 1640?
Answer: Ship Money
Question 7: Who refused to pay a tax in 1637 and went to trial?
Answer: John
Hampden
Question 8: What name is given to the physical changes to the church under Laud?
Answer: Beauty of Holiness
Question 9: What form of Protestantism did the majority of Scots follow?
Answer: Presbyterianism
Page 1
,Question 10: Name the wars with the scots that ended in defeats for Charles following National
Covenant
Answer: Bishops Wars
Question 11: What was summoned in 1640 and ended in 1642?
Answer: Long
Parliament
Question 12: What was put before parliament in December 1640 and aimed to reform the church?
Answer: Root and Branch petition.
Question 13: What piece of legislation was used to execute the Earl of Strafford in May 1641?
Answer: Bill of Attainder
Question 14: What term can be used to describe those MPs who were opposed to Pym's demands and
methods and sided with the King?
Answer: Constitutional royalists
Question 15: What did Charles attempt in January 1642 that escalated tension?
Answer: Arrest of 5 MPs
Question 16: What peace treaty did parliament offer Charles in 1646?
Answer: Newcastle Propositions
Question 17: What became politicised after the end of the Civil War?
Answer: New Model Army
Question 18: Which religious group dominated parliament and which other group dominated the army
after the Civil War?
Answer: Presbyterians and Independents
Question 19: What peace treaty did the New Model Army offer Charles in 1647?
Answer: Heads of Proposals
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,Question 20: What did the signing of the Engagement with the scots start in 1648?
Answer: Second Civil War
Question 21: What was the army's written response to the outbreak of a Second Civil War?
Answer: Army Remonstrance
Question 22: What event allowed the army to use parliament to put the king on trial in 1649?
Answer: Pride's Purge
Question 23: Period of British history between 1649 and 1660, alternative name for the Republic
Answer: Interregnum
Question 24: Republican government between 1649 and 1653
Answer: Rump
Parliament
Question 25: Republican government lasting months in 1653
Answer: Nominated Assembly
Question 26: Republican government between 1653 and 1659
Answer: Protectorate
Question 27: What were the proposed reforms of the legal system called that the Rump failed to pass?
Answer: Hale Commission 1651
Question 28: The Rump depended on a large standing army that created what problem for the Rump
in gaining support?
Answer: High taxation
Question 29: Where did Cromwell invade in 1649 in order to crush a rebellion?
Answer: Ireland
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, Question 30: Where did Oliver Cromwell conquer in 1650?
Answer: Scotland
Question 31: What was the Rump discussing that was the final straw for Cromwell, leading to him to
dissolving the Rump?
Answer: Recruiter
elections
Question 32: Nicknames for the Nominated Assembly
Answer: Barebones
parliament or Parliament of Saints
Question 33: Radical saints pushed for this issue, it led the conservative "sinners" to call for the
closure of the Nominated Assembly
Answer: Abolishing Tithes
Question 34: Name of the constitution that the Protectorate in place
Answer: Instrument of Government
Question 35: Cromwell faced opposition from which group inside the Protectorate Parliaments?
Answer: Republican MPs excluded from
the Rump
Question 36: Put in place in 1655 causing discontent amongst the gentry who felt they interfered with
local affairs
Answer: Major-Generals
Question 37: Vetted and rejected members of the clergy looking for quality of preaching and flexibility
of belief during the Protectorate
Answer: Triers and Ejectors
Question 38: Constitution presented to Oliver Cromwell in which he was offered the title of king,
Cromwell accepted a revised version because of opposition from the army
Answer: Humble Petition and Advice
1657
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