Glorious Revolution - Quiz
Glorious Revolution
  • 1. What primary political principle did the Glorious Revolution establish?
A) Dictatorial rule
B) Parliamentary sovereignty
C) Absolute monarchy
D) Direct democracy
  • 2. According to the Earl of Shaftesbury, what provides life and motion to the English government?
A) The Monarch
B) The Church of England
C) The Parliament of England
D) The British Army
  • 3. Which document formally established a system of constitutional monarchy in 1689?
A) The Bill of Rights
B) The Coronation Oath Act
C) The Magna Carta
D) The Act of Toleration
  • 4. Which institution maintains the British Army as its military arm?
A) Parliament
B) The Monarch
C) The Supreme Court
D) The Church
  • 5. Where did the majority of the bloodshed during the Glorious Revolution occur?
A) England
B) The American colonies
C) Scotland
D) Ireland
  • 6. How do some historians describe the Glorious Revolution in England compared to the French Revolution?
A) A peasant revolt
B) A coup d'état
C) An industrial revolution
D) A social upheaval
  • 7. What original meaning of 'revolution' is mentioned in the text?
A) A technological advancement
B) A circular process restoring old values
C) A complete societal transformation
D) An economic collapse
  • 8. Whose social contract theory influenced contemporary English political thought during the revolution?
A) George Buchanan
B) The Earl of Shaftesbury
C) John Locke
D) King William
  • 9. The Scottish Parliament used arguments about the contractual agreement between monarch and subjects to justify what?
A) The Bill of Rights
B) The Dominion of New England
C) The Claim of Right
D) The Act of Toleration
  • 10. Under the Coronation Oath Act 1688, William was required to maintain the primacy of which church?
A) Dutch Reformed Church
B) Catholic Church
C) Church of Scotland
D) Church of England
  • 11. Why was Catholic emancipation delayed until 1829?
A) Foreign invasion
B) Domestic opposition
C) Lack of funds
D) Lack of interest from the monarch
  • 12. The Act of Toleration 1689 granted religious relief to which group?
A) The Dutch Reformed
B) Nonconformists
C) The Monarch's allies
D) Catholics
  • 13. What event occurred in North America following the news of the Glorious Revolution in 1689?
A) A war with France
B) The founding of a new monarchy
C) The immediate independence of the colonies
D) A revolt in Boston
  • 14. Which modern human rights framework was influenced by the principles of the Glorious Revolution?
A) The Geneva Convention
B) The Treaty of Versailles
C) Universal Declaration of Human Rights
D) The Communist Manifesto
  • 15. Which of the following was the monarch no longer allowed to do without Parliament's consent?
A) Levy taxes
B) Travel abroad
C) Sign treaties
D) Attend church
  • 16. What action did James take in November 1685 regarding Parliament?
A) He dissolved it permanently
B) He forced it to pass the Test Act
C) He increased its powers
D) He suspended it
  • 17. Whom did James order Magdalen College to elect as president in 1687?
A) Anthony Farmer
B) John Shorter
C) John Hough
D) Henry Compton
  • 18. What was the consequence for the fellows of Magdalen College who refused to apologize to James?
A) They were exiled to Scotland
B) They were imprisoned in the Tower
C) They were stripped of their voting rights
D) They were replaced by Catholics
  • 19. What percentage of the English population were Catholic in the late 1680s?
A) 1.1%
B) 4.4%
C) 10%
D) 25%
  • 20. What did John Shorter, the Lord Mayor of London, insist on doing in 1687?
A) Repealing the Test Act
B) Complying with the Test Act
C) Converting to Catholicism
D) Resigning his position in protest
  • 21. When were writs issued for a general election during the reign of James II?
A) November 1685
B) 30 June 1688
C) April 1687
D) 24 August 1688
  • 22. What happened when the Archbishop of Canterbury and six other bishops refused to read the Declaration of Indulgence?
A) They were sent to exile in Ireland
B) They were immediately executed
C) They were forced to convert to Catholicism
D) They were charged with seditious libel
  • 23. What was the political movement to restore James or his descendants called?
A) Toryism
B) Whiggism
C) Jacobitism
D) Presbyterianism
  • 24. What was the religion of James II?
A) Protestant
B) Episcopalian
C) Roman Catholic
D) Presbyterian
  • 25. Where did William of Orange land his army on 5 November 1688?
A) Scotland
B) Devon
C) Dublin
D) London
  • 26. Where did James II go into exile?
A) The Netherlands
B) Scotland
C) France
D) Ireland
  • 27. What form of government was formally established by the Revolution?
A) Absolute monarchy
B) Republic
C) Constitutional monarchy
D) Theocracy
  • 28. When did James II first become king?
A) 1660
B) June 1689
C) February 1685
D) November 1688
  • 29. What percentage of Irish land was owned by Catholics in 1685?
A) 10%
B) 22%
C) 50%
D) 90%
  • 30. What did James's supporters prioritize over his personal Catholicism?
A) Religious tolerance
B) Hereditary succession
C) Absolute monarchy
D) Parliamentary supremacy
  • 31. Which group led the opposition to James's policies of 'Tolerance'?
A) Scottish Presbyterians
B) Devout Anglicans
C) Irish Catholics
D) French Protestants
  • 32. Approximately how many French Protestants settled in London after the Edict of Fontainebleau?
A) 40,000
B) 10,000
C) 400,000
D) 200,000
  • 33. What was the role of the Earl of Tyrconnell in Ireland?
A) Lord Deputy
B) Commander of the Royal Navy
C) Parliamentary speaker
D) Archbishop of Dublin
  • 34. How many Vaudois Protestants were killed in 1686?
A) 200,000
B) 2,000
C) 40,000
D) 500
  • 35. What rebellion did William III help James suppress in 1685?
A) Irish Presbyterian Rebellion
B) French Huguenot Rebellion
C) Glorious Rebellion
D) Monmouth Rebellion
  • 36. Which group's expulsion from France contributed to William's belief that war was inevitable?
A) Huguenots
B) Catholics
C) Dissenters
D) Tories
  • 37. Who was the Elector of Brandenburg that renounced his French alliance in 1685?
A) William III
B) Gaspar Fagel
C) Frederick William
D) James II
  • 38. What did William conclude was necessary from England in the event of war?
A) Naval blockades
B) Financial reparations
C) Absolute neutrality
D) Active support
  • 39. Which advisor was part of James's inner circle of Catholic converts?
A) Gaspar Fagel
B) Monmouth
C) de Zuylestein
D) Sunderland
  • 40. Who travelled to England in August 1687 to make contact with political opposition?
A) William III
B) Gaspar Fagel
C) Tyrconnell
D) de Zuylestein
  • 41. What news in October 1687 contributed to the decision to invade England?
A) Louis XIV died
B) James declared war on France
C) The Queen was pregnant
D) The Test Acts were repealed
  • 42. Who wrote a pamphlet in 1688 supporting freedom of worship for Dissenters?
A) William III
B) Sunderland
C) Gaspar Fagel
D) James II
  • 43. What commodity did Louis XIV impose tariffs on in April 1688?
A) French wine
B) Dutch herring
C) English coal
D) Dutch wool
  • 44. What did William request from the Whig opposition to justify his intervention?
A) A formal invitation
B) A financial subsidy
C) A military treaty
D) A royal decree
  • 45. Whose inheritance was William worried about protecting?
A) His own
B) His wife's
C) The parliament's
D) His children's
  • 46. Who drafted the 'Invitation to William'?
A) Gilbert Burnet
B) William Cavendish
C) Edward Russell
D) Henry Sydney
  • 47. How did Whig historians describe Henry Sydney's role?
A) The secret leader of the rebellion
B) The primary financier of the fleet
C) The great wheel on which the Revolution rolled
D) The architect of the Dutch Republic
  • 48. Who represented the church among the signatories?
A) William Cavendish
B) Henry Compton
C) Thomas Osborne
D) Henry Sydney
  • 49. Who carried the Invitation to The Hague?
A) Bentinck
B) Edward Russell
C) Henry Sydney
D) Rear Admiral Herbert
  • 50. How was the messenger who carried the Invitation to The Hague disguised?
A) As a Catholic priest
B) As an English nobleman
C) As a Dutch merchant
D) As a common sailor
  • 51. Which political party did the signatory Thomas Osborne, 1st Earl of Danby, represent?
A) Tory
B) Jacobite
C) Whig
D) Independent
  • 52. How many mercenaries did Bentinck hire to secure Dutch border fortresses?
A) 260
B) 15,000
C) 13,616
D) 30,000
  • 53. Who provided two million guilders for William's invasion?
A) Francisco Lopes Suasso
B) Bentinck
C) The Elector of Cologne
D) Johann von Görtz
  • 54. What weather condition helped the Dutch cross the Channel while keeping the English fleet docked?
A) Unusually calm seas
B) Easterly winds
C) Thick fog
D) Strong western gales
  • 55. Who warned England that a Dutch conquest was being planned under the guise of religion and liberty?
A) Ignatius White
B) Gilbert Burnet
C) William of Orange
D) James II
  • 56. Who translated the Declaration of The Hague into English?
A) William of Orange
B) Fagel
C) Gilbert Burnet
D) The Marquess d'Albeville
  • 57. Which educational institution's Fellows were removed by James's illegal commission?
A) Magdalen College, Oxford
B) Cambridge University
C) Trinity College, Dublin
D) Eton College
  • 58. What wind direction helped the Dutch fleet sail to England?
A) East
B) South-west
C) North-west
D) South
  • 59. What did Catholics call the winds that initially prevented the Dutch fleet from sailing?
A) Popish wind
B) Protestant wind
C) Divine wind
D) Royal wind
  • 60. On what date were the Dutch embarkations completed?
A) 14 October
B) 22 September
C) 30 September
D) 8 October
  • 61. From which naval port did the Dutch invasion fleet depart?
A) The Hague
B) Amsterdam
C) Hellevoetsluis
D) Rotterdam
  • 62. What was the total number of ships in the expeditionary force?
A) Exactly 250
B) Over 1,000
C) Exactly 100
D) Over 400
  • 63. How many horses were lost during the initial failed departure?
A) Five hundred
B) Nearly a thousand
C) Nearly ten thousand
D) None
  • 64. Which site had Bentinck prepared for the Dutch landing?
A) Torbay
B) Plymouth
C) London
D) Harwich
  • 65. On what date did the fleet reach Torbay?
A) 13 November
B) 5 November
C) 21 October
D) 10 November
  • 66. What did James offer the bishops on 28 September to stop the invasion?
A) His abdication
B) Religious freedom for all
C) Concessions
D) A war against France
  • 67. Where did William issue a proclamation seeking a free Parliament?
A) London
B) Exeter
C) York
D) Torbay
  • 68. Where did James join his main force of 19,000 soldiers on 19 November?
A) Faversham
B) London
C) Salisbury
D) Reading
  • 69. What was the only substantial military action in the campaign besides the Reading skirmish?
A) Clash at Wincanton
B) Battle of York
C) Siege of Plymouth
D) Naval battle at Dover
  • 70. Which city did William take on 18 November to secure his rear?
A) York
B) Reading
C) Hull
D) Plymouth
  • 71. Which family member defected to William on 26 November?
A) The Prince of Wales
B) Princess Anne
C) The Queen
D) The Earl of Rochester
  • 72. Where was James captured on 11 December?
A) London
B) Faversham
C) Rochester
D) Portsmouth
  • 73. To which location did William recommend James relocate for easier escape?
A) Rochester
B) Faversham
C) France
D) Ham
  • 74. On what date did James finally leave for France?
A) 18 December
B) 16 December
C) 10 December
D) 23 December
  • 75. Who provided the financing for the expedition?
A) William of Orange
B) Willem Bastiaensz Schepers
C) Arthur Herbert
D) The Admiralty of Amsterdam
  • 76. Which group dominated the House of Lords in the Convention Parliament?
A) Republicans
B) Tories
C) Stuart loyalists
D) Whigs
  • 77. Who was the Stuart loyalist that recognized keeping James on the throne was impossible?
A) William of Orange
B) Archbishop Sancroft
C) Danby
D) Halifax
  • 78. When was the coronation of William and Mary held?
A) 22 January
B) 6 February
C) 3 February
D) 11 April
  • 79. What faith did William and Mary swear to maintain?
A) Catholic faith
B) Anglican supremacy only
C) Protestant Reformed faith
D) Calvinist faith
  • 80. By November 1688, what was the level of support for James in Scotland?
A) A tiny minority
B) The entire population
C) Roughly fifty percent
D) A clear majority
  • 81. How many delegates in the Scottish Convention were classed as Episcopalian?
A) 125
B) 50
C) 100
D) 75
  • 82. What did the Letter from James, read on 16 March, demand?
A) The execution of William
B) The return of his throne
C) Obedience
D) A truce
  • 83. What was the key determinant of Jacobite support in 1715 and 1745?
A) Non-Juring Episcopalianism
B) Loyalty to the Scottish Privy Council
C) Support for the English Parliament
D) Opposition to the Articles of Grievances
  • 84. Who provided refuge to James II after he fled England in 1688?
A) William III
B) Louis XIV
C) Viscount Dundee
D) The Earl of Tyrconnell
  • 85. When did James II land in Ireland?
A) July 1690
B) December 1688
C) 12 March 1689
D) October 1691
  • 86. What were the supporters of James II called?
A) Williamites
B) Jacobites
C) Royalists
D) Protestants
  • 87. Which key northern port were the Jacobites unable to capture?
A) Derry
B) Belfast
C) Limerick
D) Dundalk
  • 88. Who was the Williamite general who landed in Belfast Lough in August 1689?
A) William III
B) Marquis de St Ruth
C) Schomberg
D) Godert de Ginkel
  • 89. Why did the Williamite army stall at Dundalk?
A) Logistics failures
B) French reinforcements
C) Lack of troops
D) Orders from William III
  • 90. Who led the Scottish Jacobites at the Battle of Killiecrankie?
A) Marquis de St Ruth
B) James II
C) Viscount Dundee
D) The Earl of Tyrconnell
  • 91. In which month and year was the Battle of the Boyne fought?
A) October 1691
B) July 1690
C) July 1689
D) March 1689
  • 92. At which battle were the Franco-Irish forces defeated on 12 July 1691?
A) The Boyne
B) Aughrim
C) Limerick
D) Killiecrankie
  • 93. When did the Scottish rising largely conclude?
A) July 1689
B) May 1690
C) October 1691
D) September 1690
  • 94. What was the destination of the bulk of the Williamite forces after the Treaty of Limerick?
A) France
B) England
C) Scotland
D) Low Countries
  • 95. Where did the Franco-Irish army suffer a heavy repulse in September 1690?
A) Dundalk
B) Aughrim
C) Limerick
D) Derry
  • 96. What caused the Dutch Republic to become financially exhausted by 1712?
A) The collapse of the East India Company
B) The loss of colonial territories
C) Expensive military campaigns
D) A decline in internal manufacturing
  • 97. Where did the main Dutch banking houses move after 1688?
A) Brussels
B) The Hague
C) London
D) Paris
  • 98. Who famously interpreted the Revolution as a consensual triumph of English common sense?
A) Jonathan Israel
B) Karl Marx
C) Thomas Macaulay
D) Steven Pincus
  • 99. Which historian argued that the 1688 invasion was the decisive phase of the Nine Years' War?
A) J. R. Jones
B) Edmund Burke
C) John Childs
D) Jonathan Scott
  • 100. How did Karl Marx characterize the Glorious Revolution?
A) Liberal
B) Conservative
C) Democratic
D) Radical
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