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A poor tinker who wrote the Pilgrim's Progress
a) John Cabot
b) John Bunyan
c) John Milton
d) Robert Boyle

A great poet who wrote Paradise Lost
a) John Milton
b) John Cabot
c) Jogn Bunyan
d) Robert Boyle

Who discovered the law of gravity
a) Sir Walter Raleigh
b) Sir Isaac Newton
c) Sir Francis Drake
d) Sir Francis Bacon

One groups pf Separatists that sailed for the New World from England became known as
a) Pilgrims
b) Puritans
c) Separatists
d) Elizabethan

Who wanted to separate entirely from the Chruch of England
a) Puritans
b) Age of the Puritans
c) Separatists
d) Elizabethan Age

Who wanted to purify the Church of England
a) Separatists
b) Puritans
c) Elizabethan
d) Victorian

The seventeenth century was also called?
a) Elizabethan Age
b) Victorian Age
c) Middle Ages
d) Age of the Puritans

The years that followed the defeat of the Spanish Armada were called?
a) Elizabethan Age
b) Victorian Age
c) Shakespeare
d) Age of the Puritans

What was one of the greatest naval forces the world had ever seen
a) Magna Carta
b) Lollards
c) Spanish Armada
d) Shakespeare

Who founded The Lost Colony at Roanoke ?
a) Sir Francis Drake
b) Sir Walter Raleigh
c) Sir Francis Bacon
d) John Cabot

Who was the first Englishman to sail around the world?
a) Sir Walter Raleigh
b) John Milton
c) Sir Francis Bacon
d) Sir Francis Drake

Who was the daughter of Henry VIII?
a) Queen Elizabeth II
b) Queen Elizabeth I
c) Queen Anne
d) Queen Victoria I

The first modern explorer to reach North America?
a) Sir Francis Drake
b) Sir Walter Raleigh
c) John Cabot
d) John Milton

Who ruled after the death of Oliver Cromwell's son and was the son of King Charles I?
a) King Charles I
b) King Henry VIII
c) King Charles II
d) King James I

Who was the son of King James I and was even harder on Parliament, English liberties, and the Puritans?
a) King James I
b) King Charles II
c) King Henry VIII
d) King Charles I

Who ruled after Queen Elizabeth I?
a) King Henry VIII
b) King Charles II
c) King James I
d) King Charles I

Who reigned during the English Reformation?
a) John Cabot
b) King Henry VIII
c) King James I
d) King Charles II

Who devised the scientific method
a) Francis Bacon
b) Francis Drake
c) William Gilbert
d) John Milton

Who wrote the first scientific book?
a) Francis Bacon
b) William Gilbert
c) William Harvey
d) John Bunyan

Who discovered the circulation of blood in the body?
a) Robert Hooke
b) William Gilbert
c) William Harvey
d) Robert Boyle

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