1 – a) What is the name of the river nearby?

The Serpentine The Severn The Thames

b) What is the name of the famous bridge nearby? Bridge Westminster bridge

c) Which modern building is opposite the on the other bank of the river? The Gherkin City Hall The Canary Wharf tower

2 – Who started to build the Tower of London?

Henry VIII Edward III William the Conqueror

3 – When was the oldest part built?

11 th century 15 th century 14 th century

4 – What is the name of the oldest tower? The White Tower The Bell Tower The Bloody Tower

5 - Later, King Richard I dug a ditch around it and filled it with water from the river Thames, it is called a drawbridge a portcullis a moat

6 -The Tower of London was never used as: Tick the odd-one-out: a Parliament a prison a palace

a place of execution a museum a menagerie

7 –a) What is the name of the entrance from the Thames used for prisoners of state? Lanthorn Tower Waterlane Traitors’ gate b) When was it used?

In the morning At night In the afternoon

8- a) What building made of wood and timber of Tudor architecture survived the Great Fire? The White Tower The Bell Tower The Queen’s house b) Who lives there? The Governor of the Tower The The Queen c) Famous people were imprisoned there. Match them with their occupations: Rudolf Hess • • a quaker, founder of Pennsylvania • • a Queen William Penn • • a nazi leader, a deserter d) On November, 5 th 1605, who was the catholic conspirator who planned to blow up the parliament when the Protestant king was inside with the protestant aristocracy? He signed his confession there after being tortured. Guy Fawkes William Penn Sir Walter Raleigh e) His plan is known as: The great fire the gunpowder plot The fall of protestantism f) What is celebrated every 5 th November in Britain with fireworks. Thanksgiving Bonfire Night Halloween

9 – Which princess and future queen was imprisoned in the Bell Tower? ______Who sent her there? Her father, Henry VIII Her mother, Anne Boleyn Her half-sister, Queen Mary I

10- a) Why is the Bloody tower called like that? Because of the murder of the princes Edward V and his younger brother Richard

Because the torture chambers were there Because the executioner lived there. b) Who was the writer and explorer (who discovered Virginia) who spent 13 years in prison there with his family? He is also supposed to have introduced tobacco and the potato into England. William Penn Colonel Blood Sir Walter Raleigh

11 – a) How were lower-class criminals executed?

hanged beheaded burnt at the stake b) What about noble prisoners? hanged beheaded burnt at the stake c) Most criminals were executed in not far from the Tower of London. How many prisoners were executed for treason in the Tower of London on Tower green? 7 15 26 d) Two of the six wives of Henry VIII were executed on the scaffold place situated on Tower green. Tick their names.

Catherine of Aragon Anne Boleyn Jane Seymour

Anne of Cleves Catherine Parr e) Where are they buried? St Paul’s cathedral The of St. Peter ad Vincula

12 – Which ghosts are supposed to haunt the Tower of London. The princes Queen Mary I

Sir Walter Raleigh Thomas More Anne Boleyn

13- a) What is the most common name of the Yeomen Warders, who used to be the prisoners’ warders and who are now guides? ______b) Where does their names come from? The French ‘buffetier’ They like roastbeef They were partly paid in beef rations

2 c) Which one is their everyday uniform? d) Which uniform do they wear on special occasions? 1 e) On their uniform, what do the letters E II R stand for? Dark blue with red trim Bright red with ______gold trim

14 – a) Which protected birds can you find at the Tower of London?

Ravens Eagles Seagulls

b) Why are they protected?

c) Why can’t they fly away? They are tied by one leg their wings are clipped they stay in cages d) Who feeds and looks after them? The chief warder The ravenmaster The yeoman gaoler

15 – a) What can you see in the Waterloo Barracks?

Label these items ______

1. A sword 2. An orb 3. A sceptre

4. A spoon 5. A crown 6. An ampulla (for the anointing oil) b) What are the Star of Africa and the Koh-i-noor? pearls diamonds sapphires c) Who tried to steal them in 1671 when they were in the Martin Tower? Guy Fawkes Colonel Blood Thomas More

What happened to him? Was sentenced to death Was tortured Was pardoned by the King