10 questions on the 17th century
1. King James I had the Bible translated by a group of scholars.
2. The Glorious Revolution took place in 1660.
3. Charles I was one of England’s most popular kings: `the merry monarch’.
4. In `Paradise Regained’ Milton celebrated the Restoration of the Monarchy.
5. In the Battle of the Boyne James II, supported by the Catholic Irish, was defeated by Oliver Cromwell – the beginning of the Jacobite threat.
6. William III tried to halt Louis XVI’s expansionist designs.
7. The Pilgrim Fathers established Plymouth Colony in 1620.
8. Harvard College was founded to educate ministers for the Puritan Church.
9. William of Orange and Mary Stuart ruled as joint monarchs.
10. The Roundheads, opponents of the Cavaliers, were to develop into the Whigs and later into the Labour Party.
