1.

(5mks)
i) The Tudor and Stuart rulers ordered money to be made at the
_________________________
ii) Mention one ruler who had his picture on the coins of England.
_________________________
iii) State any two reasons that made people travel during the Tudor
and Stuart Times.
a) _______________________________________________
b) _______________________________________________
iv) Each ____________________ was supposed to look after its own
roads and bridge. (town, village).
2. Match these facts correctly; (10mks)
i) Samuel Pepys His crowing time is the restoration
ii) Oliver Cromwell Wrote a diary for ten years
iii) Charles II He was a Puritan
iv)James Stuart In charge of Parish church
v) Parson James I
3. (10mks)
i). Who ordered Mary Rose to be built in 1510?
__________________________________
ii). Mary Rose was fitted with ________. (Tick the correct answer).
45 heavy guns 91heavy guns

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iii). English merchants stayed in foreign countries in trading posts.
Trading posts were later called _____. (Tick the correct answer).
markets
colonies
iv). Give any two reasons why travel by ocean or sea was dangerous.
a) __________________________________________________
b) __________________________________________________
4. Shakespeare and the Globe. Write true or false. (5mks)
i). William Shakespeare was born in 1564 _________________
ii). At age 20, Shakespeare married Anne Hathaway _____________
iii). Plays about the lives of Kings were called histories ____________
iv). Shakespeare’s father was poor ___________________
v). Shakespeare used words cleverly and beautifully _____________
5. Tick the correct answer below. (5mks)
i). In 1603, James I became King of England. He enjoyed watching
actors perform so he decided that they should be called?
The King’s men
Actors of the King
ii). People came to the Globe and __________________________
watched plays without paying.
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iii). There were many theatres. The most famous one was the Globe,
which was ____________________________
around wooden building with an open roof.
around brick building with a closed roof.
iv). Who acted as women in Shakespeare’s plays?
Girls
Young boys
v). Shakespeare was born in __________ and died in ___________ at
the age of 52.
1564, 1616
1664, 1694
6. Sir. Walter Raleigh (20mks)
i). What did Raleigh want to be when he grew up?
____________________________ (farmer, sailor)
ii). What kind of stories did Raleigh listen to when he was a boy?
__________________________________________________
iii). Who was Queen Elizabeth I favorite courtier?
_____________________________
iv). The new English trading posts in the new world were known as
__________________________ (colonies, countries)
v). Name two plants the sailors brought back to England
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 vi). Raleigh paid sailors to sail to the “New world” without him. The
people who lived in the new world were called _____________
(travelers, colonists)
vii). In 1587, Raleigh sent more colonists to North ______________
(Africa, America)
viii). The most famous of these were the ________________ who
sailed to America on the May Flower in 1620.
(English, Puritans)
ix). Raleigh Sailors reached America and started a colony there called
____________________ (Tick the correct answer)
Virginia
Puritans
7. Francis Drake (7mks)
i). Francis Drake was the most famous sailor during the reign of
Queen____________________ (Mary I, Elizabeth I)
ii). Drake was famous because ___________________
(Tick the correct answer)
He attacked Spanish Armada
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 iii). Drake like many sailors wanted to sail around the world for
various reasons. Write three reasons below.
a). _________________________________________________
b). _________________________________________________
c). _________________________________________________
iv). How long did Drake’s journey take?
__________________________
v). In 1572, Drake sailed to Central America. At the sea, he met the
ships of Spaniards who had destroyed the great Empire of the
____________________ (Aztecs, Maya).
8. The Plague (10mks)
i). What did people think was the cause of disease during the Tudor
and Stuart Times? ____________________________________
ii). During Tudor and Stuart times, people believed the only cure was
by letting the illness come out of the body. How did they do this
curing?
a) ________________________________________________
b) ________________________________________________
iii). The worst plague in England was in the year______________
(1766, 1665)
iv). Who made laws to try and stop the plague from spreading?
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 v). Who was the King during the plague?
King____________________ (James I, Charles II)
vi). Which insect carried the plague disease? ___________________
This insect lived in another animal which was a ______________
(butterfly, rat, bee, fleas)
vii). People who caught the plague got covered in ugly dark swellings
called ____________________ (buboes, baboon).
viii). This plague or disease is called _____________________ plague.
(fleas, bubonic).
9. The Great Fire of London (20mks)
i). Thomas Farynor was a _____________________ who left oven
fires on.
ii). How did Farynor and his family escape the fire?
_________________________________________________
iii). Write down three reasons that made the fire spread so fast.
a) ___________________________________________________
b) ___________________________________________________
c) ___________________________________________________
iv). What jammed the narrow streets and got in the way of the fire
fighters? ___________________________________________
v). The fire had spread for _________________ days. (4, 6).

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vi). How many churches and houses got burnt down or destroyed?
(Tick the correct answer)
86 churches and 13,000 houses
96 churches and 16,000 houses
vii). Great architects like ___________________ helped plan the new
city. (Tick the correct answer)
Isaac Christopher
Christopher Wren
viii). The new London city had buildings made of _______________
not timber.
10. Science (8mks)
i). Dr. William Harvey had a new idea about___________________
_____________________________________________________
ii). Which King founded the Royal Society?_____________
(Tick the correct answer)
Charles II
James II

iii). Name two Tudor and Stuart Scientists who joined the Royal
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 Society.
a). ____________________________________________
b). ____________________________________________
iv). What type of force did Isaac Newton discover?
__________________________________________________
v). Name two Kings who ordered translations of the Bible from Latin
to English.
a) ________________________________________________
b) ________________________________________________
vi). Which King wrote a book about witches? ___________________.

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