Vocabulary Test About HISTORY Choose The Correct Answer MCQ Exercise 103

The cathedral was very carefully ........... last century.

That vase is very old and valuable; please ........... it carefully.

We managed to catch a ........... of the Queen as the procession passed.

This coin was ........... to celebrate the victory at Trafalgar.

Legend ........... it that Robin Hood fired an arrow from his death-bed and was buried where the arrow landed.

The Wawel museum has a collection of magnificent tapestries ........... in the sixteenth century.

Sir Winston Churchill was a ........... of my uncle's when they both studied at the Royal Military College at Sandhurst.

Many Indians in North America live in tribal ...........

Many of the earliest ........... to North America established large plantations.

Kosciuszko used to live in that house. A ........... on the wall commemorates this.

War destroys everything and should be ........... at all costs.

The Sussex downs are part of the English national ...........

Papermaking began in China and from there it ........... to North Africa and Europe.

I have been tracing my family history and I have discovered that one of my ........... fought on the Polish side in the Battle of Tannenberg in 1410.

This kind of pottery is ........... to certain tribes in the Pacific islands.

This book gives a brief ........... of the history of the castle and gives details of the art collection in the main hall.

The first English dictionary was ........... by Dr Johnson.

No one was able to explain the ........... of the old custom.

The first American ........... were frequently attacked by Indians.

The ink on the old manuscript had faded with time and so parts of the text were ...........

According to Darwin, man is ........... from the apes.

The conspirators were planning the ........... of the Government.

The King was obliged to ........... and a republic was proclaimed.

Old sailing ships usually had a ........... of a woman on the prow.