Question 1
8 marksQ3 Write an account
Write an account of the ways in which attitudes towards the poor changed in Elizabethan England.
Life in Elizabethan Times Practice Questions
Question 2
8 marksQ3 Write an account
Write an account of how royal patronage affected Elizabethan society.
Question 3
8 marksQ3 Write an account
Write an account of the ways in which the Elizabethan theatre developed during Elizabeth I's reign.
Question 4
8 marksQ2 Explain what was important
Explain what was important about English sailors in Elizabethan England.
Question 5
8 marksQ2 Explain what was important
Explain what was important about the rise of the gentry in Elizabethan England.
Question 6
8 marksRead Interpretation A below, then answer the question.
Interpretation A: from a book about everyday life in Tudor England written for students in 2012.
Written for practice: not a real historical interpretation.
For most English people Elizabeth's reign was no golden age. A handful of gentry families grew rich, rebuilding their houses with chimneys, glass windows and fine furniture, and filling them with imported luxuries. Below them, prices rose faster than wages, the population grew, and harvest failures in the 1590s brought real hunger. The glitter of the Court and of the great houses hid a country in which most people worked hard simply to stay alive.
Q1 How convincing is the interpretation
How convincing is Interpretation A about living standards and prosperity in Elizabethan England?
Explain your answer based on your contextual knowledge and what it says in Interpretation A.
Question 7
8 marksRead Interpretation A below, then answer the question.
Interpretation A: from a history of Tudor society written for the general reader in 2016.
Written for practice: not a real historical interpretation.
Elizabeth's government did not act for the poor out of kindness. What drove the new laws was fear. Councillors read the reports of justices of the peace describing bands of vagrants on the roads, and they dreaded crime and rebellion. That is why the idle poor were still whipped and shut away in houses of correction. Yet the same laws did something genuinely new: they admitted that some people were poor through no fault of their own, and they forced every parish to collect a rate to keep them alive.
Q1 How convincing is the interpretation
How convincing is Interpretation A about the Elizabethan government's treatment of the poor?
Explain your answer based on your contextual knowledge and what it says in Interpretation A.