Elizabeth Section 4

Question 1

How many rooms did gentry houses usually have?

Answer 1

50

Question 2

What made gentry houses expensive?

Answer 2

Glazed windows and decorated chimneys

Question 3

What exotic things did the gentry eat?

Answer 3

Swan, pheasant, salmon, sugar, marzipan and expensive wine

Question 4

How did the gentry earn money?

Answer 4

Rented out land

Question 5

How many rooms did the average middling sort house have?

Answer 5

Around 10

Question 6

How were middling sort’s houses not as expensive?

Answer 6

Single glazed windows and plain chimneys

Question 7

What things did a typical middling sort eat?

Answer 7

Meat, fruit, bread and beer

Question 8

What were the jobs of the middling sort include?

Answer 8

Merchants, small business owners or independent farmers

Question 9

What was the typical house of the labouring poor?

Answer 9

One room which was plain

Question 10

What did the labouring poor eat?

Answer 10

Bread

Question 11

What did how much the labouring poor eat depend on?

Answer 11

How good the harvest was

Question 12

What kind of society was Elizabethan society?

Answer 12

Patriarchal

Question 13

What was forbidden by the church in terms of relationships?

Answer 13

Sex before marriage

Question 14

What did the rule of no sex before marriage make people do?

Answer 14

Marry if they found out the woman was pregnant

Question 15

What kind of marriage was forbidden by the church?

Answer 15

Homosexual marriage

Question 16

What was the reason for families usually being quite small?

Answer 16

High levels of infant mortality

Question 17

What did people not have with their wider family?

Answer 17

Strong bond

Question 18

Who did Elizabethan people turn to if they needed help?

Answer 18

Their neighbours

Question 19

What did Elizabeth’s reign begin to happen?

Answer 19

Rising levels of poverty

Question 20

What percent of people lives in poverty?

Answer 20

30%

Question 21

What were vagabonds?

Answer 21

Unemployed people

Question 22

What did vagabonds do?

Answer 22

Search from town to town for work

Question 23

What were the higher classes worried about with vagabonds?

Answer 23

If they commit crime or spread the plague

Question 24

What was the increased amount of poverty caused by?

Answer 24

Population increase, inflation, failed harvests and sheep farming

Question 25

What did Elizabeth blame for the reason of poverty?

Answer 25

Vagabonds

Question 26

Why did blaming vagabonds not help the problem of poverty?

Answer 26

They didn’t actually make a difference so it just got worse

Question 27

When was the poor law introduced?

Answer 27

1601

Question 28

Who were the deserving poor?

Answer 28

People who physically couldn’t work

Question 29

Who were the undeserving poor?

Answer 29

People who chose not to work

Question 30

What was given to the deserving poor?

Answer 30

Benefits

Question 31

Why did the poor law lead to more poverty?

Answer 31

It meant more take to pay for the benefits