Lesson Y7-U05-L01

Life in a Medieval Village Quiz: KS3 History, Unit 5

20 questions

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Lesson Y7-U05-L01, Life in a Medieval Village: 20 multiple choice questions for the KS3 History (National Curriculum), Unit 5: Year 7: Medieval Lives, written with Revision Ninja.

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The 20 questions

  1. What was the name for a village and the land around it, run by a lord?

    • A parish
    • A charter
    • A manor
    • A borough

  2. Roughly what proportion of the English population were peasants after 1066?

    • Half
    • Nine in ten
    • Three quarters
    • One in ten

  3. Which two main buildings sat at the centre of a medieval manor?

    • Castle and prison
    • Church and manor
    • Mill and bakery
    • Market and tavern

  4. What materials were medieval peasant cottages usually made of?

    • Wood, mud and straw
    • Stone and glass
    • Brick and tile
    • Iron and slate

  5. What did a self-contained medieval manor produce nearly everything from?

    • Royal storehouses
    • Foreign markets
    • Imported goods
    • Its own land

  6. What was the main purpose of the open field system?

    • Collecting royal taxes
    • Growing only wheat
    • Sharing land strips
    • Keeping livestock away

  7. In the three-field system, what was done with one field each year?

    • Paved with stone
    • Planted with apples
    • Left fallow
    • Turned into a lake

  8. Why did medieval farmers leave one field fallow each year?

    • To build houses
    • To graze sheep
    • To rest soil
    • To plant trees

  9. What was the main food crop grown in the winter field?

    • Wheat or rye
    • Corn and tobacco
    • Sugar and coffee
    • Potatoes and rice

  10. How did the three-field system manage soil exhaustion?

    • Flooding fields yearly
    • Adding artificial chemicals
    • Rotating crops
    • Burning old stubble

  11. What labour service did an unfree peasant usually owe the lord?

    • Paid monthly wages
    • Unpaid weekly work
    • Annual tax collection
    • Mandatory military service

  12. What was a tithe paid to the medieval Church?

    • A weekly gold coin
    • One tenth of produce
    • A daily prayer tax
    • Half of all land

  13. Why could an unfree serf not simply leave the manor?

    • Locked in chains
    • Tied to land
    • Forbidden to walk
    • Owed no money

  14. Which fees did peasants have to pay the lord besides labour?

    • University tuition
    • Rent and fines
    • Import tariffs
    • Bridge tolls only

  15. Which two authorities did a medieval peasant owe work and crops to?

    • Pope and Mayor
    • King and Parliament
    • Guild and Sheriff
    • Lord and Church

  16. What was the lord's demesne in a medieval manor?

    • Lord's own land
    • Peasant holdings
    • Church glebe land
    • Common pasture

  17. What key farming method kept medieval soil fertile without modern chemicals?

    • Two-field system
    • Crop rotation
    • Enclosure act
    • Three-field system

  18. How did grazing animals on a fallow field improve the soil?

    • Adding minerals
    • Tilling the earth
    • Eating weeds
    • Natural manure

  19. Which crop type was typically grown in the spring field?

    • Grapevines
    • Winter wheat
    • Barley or oats
    • Root vegetables

  20. Who ran a manor and collected rent from the peasants?

    • The king's sheriff
    • The village priest
    • The lord
    • The bishop

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