Test on English Culture and History 1. Which of the following words also indicates England?
A. Great Britain.
B. The United Kingdom.
C. Britain.
D. Albion.
2. Who gave the name "Britannia" to these islands?
A. The Angles.
B. The Romans.
C. The Britons.
D. The English.
E The Celts..
3. When did Britannia first feature on a coin? (Clue! It was in the reign of Charles the Second!)
A. AD 76.
B 1066
C. 1665
D. 1707
E 1801
4. When James the Sixth of Scotland became James the First of England, he hoped that Scots would be called
Northern Britons and English people Southern Britons. True or False?
5. After Ireland became part of the United Kingdom in 1801, some English people called the Irish "West
Britons". True or false?
6. Scotland and England joined together in
A. 1745
B 1801
C. 1707
D. 1314
7. The word "Englishness" was first used in (Clue! It was the same year as the Battle of Trafalgar)
A. AD 76
B. 1066
C. 1805
D. 1787.
8. Before you do this question, make sure you know what the word "archipelago" means - Some historians
describe the British Isles as an "Atlantic Archipelago because
A. We are islands off the coast of Europe that have also been connected to the Americas for the past 400
years or so.
8 The English like alliteration.
C. England has a famous naval history.
D. Great Britain had a world wide Empire.
9. The first king to be known as the King
A. Aethelstan
B Alfred
C. Canute
D. William the Conqueror
E. Arthur.
10. The word "England" comes from
A. The Angles
B. Pope Gregory seeing angels over London
C. The English Roman Catholic historian, the Venerable Bede.
D. William Blake seeing angels in trees when he wrote Jerusalem.
E Saint Augustine
11. EXTENSION -(HARD-SKIP IT IF YOU WISH) -
What is the difference between the English State and the English Nation?
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1 А
2 С
3 D
4 B
5 C
6 A
7 A
8 D
9 B
10 B