Question 1
8 marksQ3 Write an account
Write an account of how Essex's rebellion in 1601 affected Queen Elizabeth's authority.
Elizabeth's Court & Parliament Practice Questions
Question 2
8 marksQ3 Write an account
Write an account of how royal patronage affected Elizabethan society.
Question 3
8 marksQ2 Explain what was important
Explain what was important about Elizabeth I's relations with Parliament.
Question 4
8 marksRead Interpretation A below, then answer the question.
Interpretation A: from a history of Elizabethan government written for the general reader in 2015.
Written for practice: not a real historical interpretation.
Elizabeth's greatest skill was her choice of ministers. She picked hard-working men from gentry families rather than from the greatest nobles, such as her Secretary of State William Cecil, and she kept them in her service for life. Her Privy Council was small, met almost daily, and did the real work of ruling England. Yet the Queen never surrendered control. Ministers who pushed her too far, as they did over Mary, Queen of Scots, discovered that the final word was always hers.
Q1 How convincing is the interpretation
How convincing is Interpretation A about Elizabeth I's ministers?
Explain your answer based on your contextual knowledge and what it says in Interpretation A.
Question 5
8 marksRead Interpretation A below, then answer the question.
Interpretation A: from a study of Elizabeth I written for a popular audience in 2016.
Written for practice: not a real historical interpretation.
Elizabeth's refusal to name her successor was a calculated policy, not a failure of nerve. She knew that any named heir would become a magnet for the discontented, as Mary, Queen of Scots had been, and that uncertainty kept her councillors loyal to her. The gamble worked: in 1603 the crown passed peacefully to James VI of Scotland. Yet for forty-five years her subjects had to live with the fear that her death would bring civil war and foreign invasion.
Q1 How convincing is the interpretation
How convincing is Interpretation A about the problem of the succession?
Explain your answer based on your contextual knowledge and what it says in Interpretation A.