webquest: The Gunpowder Plot

A Webquest about the Gunpowder Plot

Go to

http://www.bonefire.org/guy/index.html

and answer the questions:

click here to download and print the questionnaire: guy.doc

Dear Students,

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01 - What happens all over Britain on the night of November 5th?

02 - Who do people commemorate that way?

03 - What did Guy Fawkes, together with a group of men, try to do with?

04 - What were English Catholics hoping when Queen Elisabeth I died in 1603?

05 - Why were they disappointed?

06 - How did some Catholics react when they saw their hope unfulfilled?

07 - Who might have died as a result of their attempts?

08 - What would people like Fawkes and his fellow conspirators be called now?

09 - How did they try to put their murderous plan into practice?

10 - At what moment did some conspirators start questioning what they were doing?

11 - How did one conspirator try to warn a friend of his?

12 - Who was that letter even shown to?

13 - What happened to Guy Fawkes when the authorities searched the cellar of the parliament?

14 - Why might the conspirators' plans have failed anyway?

15 - What other term is often used to refer to Guy Fawkes Day?

16 - What might some Englishmen be celebrating rather than the traitor's execution?

17 - How many conspirators were there altogether?

18 - Who was their leader?

19 - Why did Guy Fawkes become famous even though he wasn't the leader?

20 - Why wasn't Jeremy Tresham executed like all the others?

21 - What did the authorities use the conspirators' confessions for?

22 - How were the traitors executed?

23 - Why was that method of public execution chosen?

24 - Who might the letter have been 'fabricated' by?

25 - What do some historians believe concerning the letter?

26 - Which of the traitors is suspected of telling the authorities about their plans?

27 - In what year did the tradition of lighting bonfires start?

28 - Whose effigy is sometimes burned along with the Guy dummy?

29 - How do children collect money? What do they use it for?

30 - Which town in South East England attracts thousands of visitors for its festivities?

31 - Where has the custom spread to?

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(c) This webquest was created by Jürgen Wagner