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- 1. Multiple ChoicePre-industrial revolution recreational activities included joint activities between gentry and peasants.TrueFalse
- 2. Multiple ChoiceWho could only take part in recreational activities at annual festivals, fairs and holidays such as Christmas?GentryPeasants
- 3. Multiple ChoiceGentry or the upper classes took part in which types of activities?Hunting, Real Tennis and dancingMob footballBare Fist fightingBaiting
- 4. Multiple ChoiceWhich characteristics of society in pre-industrial Britain are not true of the time?Limited communication and transportWidespread illiteracyVery limited free timePeople lived mainly in the towns and cities
- 5. Multiple ChoiceCharacteristics of popular recreation (pre-industrial Britain) e.g. Mob football include:Violent and cruelOnly on festival daysSimple with unwritten rulesAll of the above
- 6. Multiple ChoiceWho is regarded with reforming the English Public School system?Dr Thomas ArnoldBaden PowellRoger BannisterDr James Clegg
- 7. Multiple ChoiceDr Thomas Arnold's aim was to preach good moral behaviour - what movement was this part?Wesleyan MethodistsMuscular ChristianityMuscular CatholicismYMCA
- 8. Multiple ChoiceWhat term is defined as the combination of physical effort and moral integrity (sportsmanship)?House SystemCommercialismAthleticismGamesmanship
- 9. Multiple ChoiceWhat term is defined as: the gradual organisation and defining of the rules (e.g. for the actual playing of a sport, as well as the conduct and behaviour)?CodificationRationalisationRational RecreationUrbanisation
- 10. Multiple ChoiceIn the 19th Century, these were sports pastimes for the lower classes which were designed by middle classes to be well ordered, organised and controlled.CodificationRationalisationRational RecreationUrbanisation
- 11. Multiple ChoiceWhat myths prevented the development of sport in the girl's public schools?Medical concerns that strenous activity would complicate child bearingUnladylike to be competitiveNot considered necessary for girlsAll of the above
- 12. Multiple ChoicePierre de Courbetin based the modern Olympic movement on which English sport festival?Shrove Tuesday Mob FootballMuch Wenlock Olympian GamesBoxing Day - Bare Knuckle fightsInvictus Games
- 13. Multiple ChoiceFunding from the state and scholarship systems to avoid being seen as a professional sports person is known as what?AmateurismShamateurismLombardian EthicWin at all costs ethic
- 14. Multiple ChoiceVince Lombardi, an American Football Coach in the 1950s believed in which unwanted attitude?Amateurism only OlympicsProfessionalism in all sportsWin at all costsShamateurism
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