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The Gunpowder Plot 0001   Mixed

 
 
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1. In which year did the plot take place?
 
1603
1605
1607
1609
 
 
2. The plot was an attempt to kill which English king?
 
Charles I
Charles II
James I
James II

The plotters also planned to abduct the royal children
 
 
3. Which state occasion was being held at the time of the plot?
 
The King's coronation
The King's wedding
The State Opening of Parliament
The Trooping of the Colour
 
 
4. Who was the leader of the conspirators?
 
Robert Catesby
Thomas Percy
Francis Tresham
John Wright

He'd previously been involved in a failed attempt to oust Elizabeth I
 
 
5. The best-remembered conspirator, Guy Fawkes, enlisted in the army of which country in 1593?
 
Austria
France
The Netherlands
Spain

His military service gave him experience of explosives
 
 
6. Which identity did Fawkes assume for the purposes of the plot?
 
David Davidson
John Johnson
Robert Robertson
Thomas Thompson

Johnson was servant to Fawkes's co-conspirator Thomas Percy
 
 
7. What was the name of the influential English Jesuit who was executed for his part in the plot?
 
Henry Gardner
Henry Garfield
Henry Garnet
Henry Garrett
 
 
8. Which Thomas Hardy novel opens on the evening of Guy Fawkes Night?
 
Far from the Madding Crowd
Jude the Obscure
The Return of the Native
Under the Greenwood Tree
 
 
9. Before the assassination attempt the plotters had hidden the gunpowder in Robert Catesby's house, in which area of London?
 
Chelsea
Islington
Lambeth
Wapping
 
 
10. Which historian published the book Faith and Treason: The Gunpowder Plot in 1996?
 
Antonia Fraser
Pauline Gregg
Judith Herrin
Frances Lannon
 
 
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