Lesson Y8-U04-L01

Britain Before Industry Rural Life c.1750 Quiz: KS3 History, Unit 10

20 questions

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Lesson Y8-U04-L01, Britain Before Industry Rural Life c.1750: 20 multiple choice questions for the KS3 History (National Curriculum), Unit 10: Year 8: Industrial Revolution, written with Revision Ninja.

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The 20 questions

  1. About how many out of every 100 people lived in the countryside around 1750?

    • About 80
    • About 95
    • About 50
    • About 20

  2. Roughly how many people lived in Britain around 1750?

    • About 6 million
    • About 16 million
    • About 600,000
    • About 67 million

  3. What term describes a village that makes almost everything it needs itself?

    • Globalised
    • Urbanised
    • Self-sufficient
    • Industrialised

  4. What system involved making goods at home by hand before factories existed?

    • Domestic system
    • Enclosure system
    • Factory system
    • Feudal system

  5. What were large shared village fields divided into thin strips called?

    • Industrial parks
    • Private estates
    • Enclosed farms
    • Open fields

  6. Before steam power, which natural forces provided the main power sources?

    • Coal and oil
    • Electricity and gas
    • Nuclear power
    • Wind and water

  7. Which heavy farming activity was typically carried out in spring?

    • Ploughing and sowing
    • Shearing sheep
    • Slaughtering livestock
    • Harvesting wheat

  8. Why was a bad harvest particularly dangerous for villages around 1750?

    • Higher wages
    • Risk of hunger
    • Excess of grain
    • Lower taxes

  9. Making cloth at home in a cottage to sell to a merchant is known as what?

    • Factory work
    • Mass production
    • Guild trading
    • Domestic system

  10. What crop was commonly grown on Suffolk's heavy clay soils around 1750?

    • Tobacco and sugar
    • Cotton and tea
    • Wheat and barley
    • Rice and maize

  11. In 1750 Suffolk, what was the primary use of keeping large flocks of sheep?

    • Meat export
    • Dairy farming
    • Leather production
    • Producing wool

  12. What type of source is a traveller's account written in the 1720s?

    • Secondary source
    • Primary source
    • Tertiary source
    • Modern textbook

  13. What key term describes women and children spinning wool in their cottages?

    • Factory labour
    • Apprenticeship
    • Guild system
    • Domestic system

  14. Where did ordinary rural families mostly work around 1750?

    • On large estates
    • Down mines
    • At home
    • In factories

  15. Why might historians be cautious using a single traveller's account?

    • Written by royalty
    • Always perfectly accurate
    • Might be unrepresentative
    • Must be fake

  16. Why was rural life in 1750 often described as the 'good old days'?

    • Life was easy
    • Food was abundant
    • Seemed peaceful
    • Work was modern

  17. Why was a typical village in 1750 described as self-sufficient?

    • Traded globally
    • Relied on imports
    • Produced own goods
    • Used steam power

  18. Before the industrial era, what was the main source of power?

    • Electricity and gas
    • Oil and petrol
    • Muscle, wind, water
    • Coal and steam

  19. What was the main agricultural activity during a 1750 winter?

    • Planting seeds
    • Threshing and mending
    • Haymaking
    • Harvesting crops

  20. Which key farming activity took place during summer around 1750?

    • Sowing winter wheat
    • Threshing grain
    • Slaughtering livestock
    • Haymaking and weeding

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