Lifestyle during Elizabeth's reign

Question 1

Who attended theatre performances?

Answer 1

Both the rich and poor

Question 2

What happened to literacy under Elizabeth?

Answer 2

It increased

Question 3

What sports did the Nobility play?

Answer 3

Hunting, fencing and tennis

Question 4

Approximately how many people were in the royal court?

Answer 4

1000

Question 5

_____ believed the theatre distracted people from prayer, or even as sinful.

Answer 5

Puritans

Question 6

What was used to teach children to read and write?

Answer 6

Hornbooks

Question 7

In what language were studies at Oxbridge taught?

Answer 7

Latin

Question 8

Who held almost all the wealth before Elizabeth came to the throne?

Answer 8

The nobility

Question 9

In the 16th Century, what happened to birth and death rates in England?

Answer 9

Birth rates rose and the death rate fell so the population rose

Question 10

‘Small farms where each farmer grew only enough for themselves’
What does this phrase describe?

Answer 10

Subsistence farms

Question 11

How many people died in the 1556 flu outbreak?

Answer 11

200,000

Question 12

When was the warning against vagabonds written?

Answer 12

1567

Question 13

Who wrote the warning against vagabonds?

Answer 13

Thomas Harman

Question 14

When was the Poor Law passed?

Answer 14

1601

Question 15

What would happen to a beggar on the second time they were caught?

Answer 15

Their ear was burned until a hole was farmed

Question 16

In what year was the first law that taxed the wealthy to pay for the poor introduced?

Answer 16

1601

Question 17

What measures did the Elizabethan government take to address poverty?

Answer 17

• The government passed the Act of setting the poor on work”

- The government passed a Poor Law in 1572

Question 18

When were compulsory taxes introduced to support the poor?

Answer 18

1572

Question 19

When was the ‘Act for setting the poor on work’ introduced?

Answer 19

1576

Question 20

What were the three categories of the poor?

Answer 20

Idle poor, able-bodied and impotent

Question 21

Would living standards in Elizabethan England have been better if the Reformation had not happened?

Answer 21

• Catholic monasteries important in providing support & treatment for the sick/ill
• When Henry VIII dissolved the monasteries in the 1530s lots of this help disappeared
• Church now offered less support for the poor