Popular depictions of Elizabeth I

12 questions

1. What is meant by the term 'golden age'?
2. What building material did Elizabethans use to show off their wealth in 'prodigy houses'?
3. Which decade saw a period of particularly bad harvests which led to famine in England?
4. Parliament was furious with Elizabeth in 1601 about her use of which one of the following:
5. Before Elizabeth's reign, what religious establishments had helped to provide food for the poor?
6. Who led the two factions in Elizabeth's court at the end of her reign? Choose **two** answers.
7. What belief about a person's physical appearance was common during Elizabeth's reign?
8. How did Elizabeth use speeches, such as the 'Golden Speech', to maintain her rule?
9. What were royal progresses?
10. Complete this sentence: John Stubbs was punished for criticising Elizabeth by having his _________________ cut off.
11. How did some critics of Elizabeth, like John Foxe and Edmund Spenser, criticise Elizabeth and get away with it?
12. Who did the historian James Froude think was the real power behind the throne during Elizabeth's reign?

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