Lesson Y7-U05-L06

The Peasants' Revolt of 1381 Quiz: KS3 History, Unit 5

20 questions

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Lesson Y7-U05-L06, The Peasants' Revolt of 1381: 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. In what year did the Peasants' Revolt take place?

    • 1351
    • 1381
    • 1215
    • 1348

  2. What law was passed in 1351 to freeze peasant wages?

    • Statute of Labourers
    • Forest Charter
    • Poor Law
    • Magna Carta

  3. In what year was the Statute of Labourers passed?

    • 1348
    • 1381
    • 1351
    • 1215

  4. Why did the Black Death increase peasant bargaining power?

    • Land prices fell
    • Worker shortage
    • Kings helped them
    • Lords lost titles

  5. What did the Statute of Labourers make illegal for peasants?

    • Owning any land
    • Learning to read
    • Marrying outside the village
    • Moving for higher wages

  6. Who was the boy-king in 1381 who faced the rebels?

    • Richard II
    • Henry II
    • Edward the Confessor
    • Harold Godwinson

  7. What was the poll tax introduced in the fourteenth century?

    • A tax on harvested crops
    • A tax on farm animals
    • A tax on church land
    • A flat tax per person

  8. What feature of the 1381 poll tax made it deeply unfair?

    • Flat rate
    • Land tax
    • Income tax
    • Double levy

  9. Which expensive conflict forced the English government to raise emergency taxes by 1380?

    • Hundred Years' War
    • Crusades
    • Norman Conquest
    • Wars of the Roses

  10. How many times was the poll tax charged in four years?

    • Ten times
    • Five times
    • Once
    • Three times

  11. What action was taken against villages that refused to pay the poll tax?

    • Lords arrested
    • Officials sent
    • Churches closed
    • Farms burned

  12. Which of these was a short-term cause of the Peasants' Revolt?

    • The poll tax
    • The feudal system
    • The Black Death
    • Christian teachings

  13. Which long-term factor raised peasant wage expectations before 1381?

    • The Black Death
    • The Magna Carta
    • Good summer harvests
    • New farming tools

  14. What term describes a tax where every person pays the exact same amount?

    • Customs duty
    • Poll tax
    • Tithe
    • Geld

  15. Which 1351 law attempted to cap peasant wages after the Black Death?

    • Forest Charter
    • Statute of Labourers
    • Magna Carta
    • Provisions of Oxford

  16. Which epidemic drastically reduced England's population shortly before the revolt?

    • Sweating Sickness
    • Spanish Flu
    • Great Famine
    • Black Death

  17. Which word describes a tax where everyone pays the same amount, rich or poor?

    • Wine tax
    • Land tax
    • Income tax
    • Flat tax

  18. What role did the poll tax play in the outbreak of 1381?

    • The trigger
    • The only cause
    • The underlying ideology
    • A peaceful solution

  19. What specific event in 1381 acted as the immediate spark for the peasants' uprising?

    • French invasion
    • Harvest failure
    • King's marriage
    • Third poll tax

  20. Why is viewing the Peasants' Revolt as having a single cause incorrect?

    • Multiple grievances combined
    • Records were destroyed
    • Only nobles rebelled
    • Historians disagree entirely

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