11. On their acceptance of ______, William and Mary were crowned jointly in Westminster Abbey. Thus the age of constitutional monarchy began.
A. the Test Act
B. Magana Carta
C. the Bill of Rights
D.the Petition of Right
12. The English Renaissance was largely literary, and its finest representative dramatists were the following EXCEPT ______.
A. Ben Jonson
B. Geoffrey Chaucer
C. William Shakespeare
D.Christopher Marlowe
13. After the Opium War in 1840, China ceded Hong Kong to Britain and opened five ports to British trade by ______.
A. the Treaty of Paris
B. the Treaty of Beijing
C. the Treaty of Nanjing
D.the Treaty of Tianjin
14. Which of the following is NOT considered a characteristic of farming in the late 18th and early 19th centuries?
A. The “open-field” system.
B. A system of crop rotation.
C. Introduction of artificial fertilizer.
D.Introduction of new agricultural machinery.
15. Tories were traditionalists who were certainly against ______.
A. hereditary monarchy
B. Parliamentary reforms
C. the Church of England
D.strict maintenance of law and order
16. The Privy Council remained powerful until the 18th century when most of its work was taken over by ______.
A. Parliament
B. the Cabinet
C. the House of Lords
D.the House of Commons
17. Which of the following statements about UK’s monarchy is NOT true?
A. The Sovereign reigns, but doest not rule.
B. The United Kingdom is a constitutional monarchy.
C. The continuity of the monarchy has been broken only once.
D.The monarchy is the oldest institution of government, going back to at least the 7th century.
18. Except that ______ may not be a Roman Catholic, public offices in Britain are open without distinction to members of all churches or of none.
A. the Lord Chancellor
B. the Prime Minister
C. the Home Secretary
D.the Attorney General
19. The University Boat Race between Oxford and Cambridge has been rowed on the Thames almost every ______ since 1836.
A. spring
B. summer
C. autumn
D.winter
20. The Royal National Eisteddford, which dates back to 1176, takes place in ______ for a week annually.
A. Wales
B. London
C. Scotland
D.Edinburgh
