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Chapter 1: The Values and Principles of the UK

About the Life in the UK Test8 QWho must take the test and language of the test4 QBooking and sitting the test at a test centre5 QWhat the test questions are based on3 QThe fundamental principles of British life7 QRights of residents5 QFreedoms offered in the UK4 QResponsibilities of residents5 QRespecting other people's opinions2 QRights and responsibilities apply to everyone3 QEquality and treating people fairly4 QNo place for extremism3 QBecoming a permanent resident4 QThe English language requirement2 QProving knowledge of English and life in the UK5 QThe citizenship ceremony and pledge2 QThe citizenship pledge wording4 QTaking part in community life3 QLooking after the environment3 Q

Chapter 2: What is the UK?

What the UK is made of7 QThe official name of the UK3 QBritain and the British Isles3 QThe rest of Ireland3 QCapital cities8 QMajor cities3 QA parliamentary democracy3 QA constitutional monarchy2 QHow the UK is governed2 QDevolved powers2 QThe Union Flag4 QThree crosses on the Union Flag4 QThe flag of each nation2 QPatron saints and their days9 QNational plant emblems5 QCurrency5 QCurrency notes and coins3 QOther UK banknotes1 QDifferent banknote designs2 QLanguages4 QLanguages across the nations1 QRegional and minority languages3 QRivers and mountains4 QPopulation and people2 QDistribution of the population1 QCrown dependencies2 QCrown dependencies not in the UK3 QBritish Overseas Territories1 QOverseas territories not in the UK2 Q

Chapter 3: A Long and Illustrious History

The Stone Age and the land bridge4 QStone Age and early Britain2 QThe first farmers, Stonehenge and Skara Brae5 QThe Bronze Age4 QBronze Age and Iron Age Britain3 QThe Iron Age: hill forts, Celtic language and the first coins5 QThe Roman invasions of Britain5 QThe Roman invasions: Caesar, Claudius and Boudicca3 QThe Romans in Britain (43-410 AD)3 QBoudicca's revolt against the Romans3 QHadrian's Wall and the Picts4 QRoman rule and the Romans leaving Britain4 QAnglo-Saxons and the spread of Christianity2 QThe Anglo-Saxons and Sutton Hoo5 QChristian missionaries: Patrick, Columba and Augustine5 QThe Vikings and Alfred the Great2 QThe Vikings: raids, the Danelaw and Danegeld4 QAlfred the Great, King Cnut and Kenneth MacAlpin4 QCnut, the Danelaw and Kenneth MacAlpin2 QNorman Conquest (1066)5 QThe Norman Conquest and the Battle of Hastings (1066)5 QThe Bayeux Tapestry1 QThe Domesday Book (1086)1 QThe Bayeux Tapestry and the Domesday Book4 QThe Middle Ages: a time of war3 QThe Middle Ages: wars and the Black Death3 QFeudalism and the medieval social order2 QThe beginnings of Parliament4 QCommon law and the development of Parliament2 QMagna Carta (1215)4 QMagna Carta (1215)4 QEngland and Wales in the Middle Ages4 QEdward I and the conquest of Wales2 QIreland in the Middle Ages: the Pale2 QScotland and Bannockburn (1314)3 QFeudalism and the Black Death (1348)4 QThe Crusades and the Hundred Years War4 QThe Hundred Years War and Agincourt2 QEnglish becomes the official language1 QEnglish language and culture in the Middle Ages4 QGeoffrey Chaucer and early English writing1 QWilliam Caxton and the printing press1 QCastles and cathedrals of the Middle Ages3 QThe Wars of the Roses (1455-1485)3 QThe Wars of the Roses (1455 to 1485)5 QHenry VII and the founding of the House of Tudor4 QHenry VII and the start of the Tudors2 QHenry VIII and the Church of England4 QHenry VIII and the break with Rome3 QThe six wives of Henry VIII5 QThe six wives of Henry VIII2 QThe Reformation and Protestant ideas3 QThe Reformation and Mary, Queen of Scots2 QTudor monarchs after Henry VIII2 QEdward VI and Mary I4 QElizabeth I and the Spanish Armada (1588)3 QElizabeth I and the Spanish Armada (1588)4 QThe Reformation in Scotland and Mary, Queen of Scots4 QKey Tudor figures: Drake and the age of exploration1 QThe Elizabethan age: exploration and Sir Francis Drake3 QWilliam Shakespeare (1564 to 1616)5 QUnion of the Crowns (1603)1 QJames I and the Union of the Crowns (1603)3 QJames I, the Divine Right of Kings and the King James Bible2 QThe rise of Parliament and the Divine Right of Kings3 QIreland under the Tudors and Stuarts: plantations3 QPlantation of Ulster1 QGunpowder Plot (1605)1 QThe Pilgrim Fathers and the Mayflower (1620)1 QThe beginning of the English Civil War (1642)5 QEnglish Civil War and Oliver Cromwell3 QCromwell, the Commonwealth and the execution of Charles I5 QCromwell, Scotland and the oak tree escape4 QThe Restoration of Charles II (1660)5 QThe Restoration and key 17th-century laws2 QThe Restoration: Pepys, the Royal Society and Wren2 QIsaac Newton1 QThe Great Plague and Great Fire of London2 QThe Glorious Revolution of 16885 QWilliam and Mary as joint monarchs2 QGlorious Revolution and Bill of Rights (1688-1689)2 QThe Bill of Rights of 16895 QThe beginning of constitutional monarchy3 QWhigs, Tories and the beginning of party politics3 QThe growth of a free press2 QPocket boroughs and rotten boroughs3 QSettlers and refugees: Jews and Huguenots2 QImmigration through history: Huguenots and others1 QThe Battle of the Boyne and the Jacobites2 QQueen Anne and the question of succession2 QAct of Union with Scotland (1707)1 QThe Act of Union of 17075 QGeorge I and the first Prime Minister4 QGeorge I and Prime Minister Robert Walpole1 QThe first Prime Minister: Robert Walpole1 QBonnie Prince Charlie and the Battle of Culloden (1746)4 QBonnie Prince Charlie and the Battle of Culloden (1746)2 QThe Highland Clearances3 QThe Enlightenment1 QThe Enlightenment and Scottish thinkers4 QRobert Burns, the Scottish Bard1 QJames Watt and steam power2 QThe Industrial Revolution1 QThe Industrial Revolution in Britain3 QRichard Arkwright and the Bessemer process2 QRichard Arkwright and the factory system1 QCanals and transport in the Industrial Revolution2 QInventions and engineers of the Industrial Revolution2 QBritain's overseas trade and the East India Company3 QCaptain Cook and the East India Company2 QSake Dean Mahomet2 QSake Dean Mahomet1 QThe slave trade3 QThe abolition of the slave trade and slavery6 QAbolition of slavery1 QFlorence Nightingale and social reformers2 QThe American colonies and the Boer War1 QThe American War of Independence3 QThe wars with France and Napoleon2 QAct of Union with Ireland (1801)1 QThe Act of Union with Ireland (1801)2 QThe crosses of the Union Flag3 QWhat the Union Flag combines1 QTrafalgar and Admiral Nelson (1805)4 QWaterloo and the Duke of Wellington (1815)4 QTrafalgar and Waterloo (Nelson and Wellington)2 QQueen Victoria and the Victorian Age4 QThe British Empire and the Victorian Age1 QThe British Empire at its height2 QThe Reform Act of 18321 QThe Reform Act of 1832 and the right to vote3 QFree trade and the repeal of the Corn Laws (1846)2 QImproving factory working conditions1 QThe Great Exhibition of 18511 QBritish industry in the 19th century2 QGeorge and Robert Stephenson and the railways2 QIsambard Kingdom Brunel and the Great Western Railway2 QIsambard Kingdom Brunel and the Great Western Railway1 QThe Crimean War (1853 to 1856)3 QThe Crimean War and the Victoria Cross1 QFlorence Nightingale, founder of modern nursing3 QThe Crimean War and Florence Nightingale1 QThe Chartists and the Reform Act of 18672 QMarried women's property rights2 QIreland in the 19th century: famine and Home Rule3 QCharles Dickens and Victorian literature1 QRudyard Kipling1 QRudyard Kipling and the Empire2 QThe Boer War (1899 to 1902)2 QThe early 20th century and social reform2 QEmmeline Pankhurst and the suffragettes1 QEmmeline Pankhurst and the suffragettes3 QWomen's right to vote2 QWomen winning the vote (1918 and 1928)3 QThe First World War (1914-1918)2 QThe start of the First World War2 QThe First World War (1914 to 1918)4 QThe Battle of the Somme and the Armistice2 QThe Battle of the Somme and the Armistice3 QHome Rule and the Easter Rising3 QThe Easter Rising and the partition of Ireland1 QThe partition of Ireland (1921 to 1922)4 QIreland: division and the Good Friday Agreement2 QBetween the wars: the Great Depression1 QThe inter-war years and the Great Depression3 QThe Second World War: Hitler and the start of the war2 QThe start of the Second World War (1939)3 QThe Second World War and Churchill (1939-1945)5 QWinston Churchill, the wartime leader3 QDunkirk (1940)3 QDunkirk, the Battle of Britain and the Blitz2 QThe Battle of Britain (1940)2 QThe Blitz2 QThe wider Second World War and the Holocaust2 QBritain in the 20th century: wars and recovery2 QD-Day and the end of the Second World War2 QD-Day and victory in 19453 QAlexander Fleming and penicillin2 QPenicillin: Alexander Fleming1 Q20th-century British inventions: radar, the jet engine and the web4 Q20th-century British inventions3 QMore 20th-century inventions: the hovercraft and Concorde3 QThe Beveridge Report and the welfare state1 QThe Butler Education Act of 19443 QThe post-war welfare state and the Beveridge Report3 QClement Attlee and the post-war welfare state1 QFounding of the NHS (1948)3 QThe founding of the NHS (1948)3 QAneurin Bevan and the NHS1 QPost-war immigration to the UK1 QPost-war immigration2 QNATO and the post-war years2 QDecolonisation and joining the EEC2 QDecolonisation and the Commonwealth3 QThe Swinging Sixties1 QTrade unions and the economy in the 1970s2 QMargaret Thatcher and the Falklands (1982)3 QMargaret Thatcher, Britain's first woman Prime Minister4 QMargaret Thatcher's government1 QTony Blair, devolution and Northern Ireland peace1 QDevolution (1999)2 QConflicts in the Gulf, Afghanistan and Iraq3 QThe UK leaves the European Union4 Q

Chapter 4: A Modern, Thriving Society

Music and the Proms2 QThe Proms and the Last Night3 QHenry Purcell2 QHandel: Water Music and Messiah3 QBritish composers2 QElgar, Vaughan Williams and Walton2 QBenjamin Britten and the Aldeburgh festival2 QThe BRIT Awards and the Mercury Prize2 QFamous music festivals and venues2 QTheatre and the West End2 QGilbert and Sullivan and musical theatre2 QPantomime and the Edinburgh Festival2 QThe Laurence Olivier Awards2 QArts and culture2 QBritish painters2 QPre-Raphaelites and more British artists2 QThe Turner Prize and UK galleries2 QArchitecture: Sir Christopher Wren1 QArchitecture: Inigo Jones and Robert Adam2 QThe Gothic revival and the Houses of Parliament2 QSir Edwin Lutyens and the Cenotaph2 QCapability Brown and garden design2 QBritish fashion designers2 QWilliam Shakespeare4 QChaucer and early British poetry2 QFamous British poets2 QFamous British poets and their poems3 QFamous British authors2 QDickens, Hardy and Stevenson2 QThe Brontes and Agatha Christie2 QFamous British novelists2 QThe Booker Prize and Nobel winners2 QNotable British scientists and inventors3 QBritish scientists: Newton and Darwin2 QFestivals and customs4 QCustoms and traditions through the year2 QChristmas and Boxing Day2 QEaster, Lent and Shrove Tuesday3 QNew Year and Hogmanay2 QBurns Night2 QValentine's Day, April Fool's Day and Mothering Sunday3 QHallowe'en and Guy Fawkes2 QBonfire Night and Remembrance Day4 QBank holidays and public holidays1 QDiwali and the festival of lights1 QEid and Vaisakhi2 QHanukkah and Eid ul-Adha2 QPatron saints' days4 QNational flowers and saints' days3 QSport in the UK4 QSporting events and heroes2 QOlympic Games in the UK3 QThe Paralympic Games2 QBritish sporting greats2 QOlympic and Paralympic medal winners3 QMore British sporting heroes3 QTanni Grey-Thompson, Kelly Holmes and Andy Murray2 QCricket, golf and rugby2 QRugby union and rugby league2 QFootball leagues and the 1966 World Cup2 QHorse racing and famous events2 QMotor sport and rowing2 QTennis, golf and the Ashes2 QTraditional foods of the UK1 QPubs and leisure1 QPubs and drinking age rules2 QBetting and the National Lottery2 QFamous gardens and the countryside1 QSocial networking1 QFilm and cinema1 QCharlie Chaplin and Alfred Hitchcock2 QBritish films and the BAFTAs2 QBritish comedy2 QTelevision, radio and the media1 QThe TV licence1 QUK landmarks4 QThe Tower of London2 QThe London Eye and Big Ben2 QThe Eden Project and Snowdonia2 QFamous UK landscapes1 QNational parks and the National Trust1 QNational parks and the National Trust founding2 QReligion in the UK4 QReligion and beliefs in the UK1 QThe established churches3 QRoman Catholic and other churches1 QThe geography of the UK1 QCapital cities of the UK3 QCities of the UK2 QThe population of the UK2 QLanguages of the UK2 QMoney and notes across the UK1 QAn equal society1 Q

Chapter 5: The UK Government, the Law and Your Role

The development of democracy and the vote4 QThe constitution and constitutional monarchy3 QThe role of the monarch5 QThe monarch provides stability1 QThe role of the Crown in Parliament2 QThe national anthem2 QParliament: Commons and Lords5 QThe House of Commons is the more important chamber2 QThe House of Lords and life peers2 QThe Speaker and debates in Parliament2 QThe Speaker is neutral1 QThe Whips1 QHow laws are made4 QHansard and a free press1 QElections and voting4 QFirst past the post2 QConstituencies and MPs1 QBy-elections1 QWho can vote and stand for office2 QMembers of the Lords cannot be MPs1 QThe electoral register and how to vote2 QPostal voting and the polling station2 QThe Prime Minister and Cabinet4 QCabinet posts3 Q10 Downing Street and Prime Minister's Questions1 QThe Opposition and shadow cabinet2 QThe civil service1 QPressure and lobby groups1 QDevolved governments5 QReserved and devolved powers1 QWhat the devolved bodies decide3 QThe Northern Ireland Assembly and Scottish Parliament1 QThe Scottish Parliament: 129 MSPs5 QThe Welsh Parliament (Senedd) and its members3 QThe Northern Ireland Assembly: MLAs at Stormont4 QDevolved member titles compared2 QThe UK Parliament can suspend devolved bodies1 QLocal government1 QMayors and councillors2 QCouncil tax and local services1 QFundamental freedoms1 QMagna Carta and the roots of rights1 QHuman rights and the European Convention1 QEqual opportunities1 QThe Equality Act and equal treatment1 QCrimes against the person and the family2 QForced Marriage Protection Orders1 QCivil and criminal law3 QExamples of criminal offences2 QExamples of civil law1 QThe judiciary and the police2 QCourts and the legal system2 QCourts in England and Wales5 QThe Youth Court3 QThe small claims procedure2 QJuries3 QScottish juries: 15 members5 QThe Scottish court system4 QNorthern Ireland courts and verdicts2 QThe police and keeping the law1 QPolice and Crime Commissioners2 QComplaining about the police1 QTaxes and National Insurance2 QPaying tax and self-assessment2 QNational Insurance numbers1 QDriving and vehicles2 QDriving licence age and vehicle rules3 QYour role in the community2 QJury service and standing for office at 182 QSchool governors and school boards2 QVolunteering and helping others2 QLooking after the environment1 QJoining a political party2 QInternational organisations2 QThe Commonwealth3 QThe United Nations2 QNATO and the UK2 QThe Council of Europe and human rights1 QThe UK and the European Union3 QThe UK formerly in the EU2 Q