Lesson Y7-U03-L02

Y7-U03-L02 The Feudal System Land for Loyalty Quiz: KS3 History, Unit 3

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Lesson Y7-U03-L02, The Feudal System Land for Loyalty: 20 multiple choice questions for the KS3 History (National Curriculum), Unit 3: Year 7: Norman England, written with Revision Ninja.

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The 20 questions

  1. What did William declare about all the land in England after 1066?

    • That all of it belonged to him, the king
    • That it belonged to the English Church
    • That it belonged to the Witan and its members
    • That it belonged to the Pope in Rome

  2. What did the barons receive from the king?

    • A seat in the Church council with the Pope in Rome
    • Gold coins paid every year from the royal treasury
    • Large estates across England
    • Permission to build their own cathedrals in the towns

  3. What was another name for the barons?

    • Thegns, the local lords who held land from the king and fought for him in his army
    • Villeins, the peasants at the bottom of the pyramid who did most of the farming work
    • Tenants-in-chief, the barons who held land directly from the king in return for service
    • Ceorls, the free farmers who paid rent and food to the lords who held the land

  4. Roughly how many barons were there in William's feudal system?

    • About 1,800
    • About 180
    • About 18,000
    • About 18

  5. What did barons have to give the king in return for their land?

    • Homage, a set number of knights, and taxes
    • Gold, cattle, and a yearly supply of bread
    • Books and records for the monks of the royal abbeys
    • Stone for castles, and daily shifts working in the fields

  6. Why did William scatter each baron's lands across many counties?

    • So that the Church could collect tithes from each county more easily
    • So each baron would be forced to farm the land with his own hands
    • So that barons could visit their friends in different parts of England
    • So no baron could easily gather a private army in one place and rebel

  7. What did the king keep for himself?

    • Every piece of land that was ever claimed by the English
    • Nothing, because all land was given to the barons
    • About a fifth of the land, as royal land
    • All the land in the north, which was too wild to be given away

  8. What did knights receive from a baron?

    • A monastery with its own church and farmland
    • A seat on the Witan council in London
    • A castle built of stone on the top of a mound
    • A manor, which was a smaller estate

  9. How long was the usual knight service a knight owed each year?

    • About 40 days
    • About 4 days
    • About 400 days
    • About 140 days

  10. What did peasants, or villeins, receive from their lord?

    • A castle to live in with stables and a private well
    • A knight's horse and armour to fight for the lord
    • A seat on the king's council and a share of the taxes
    • A strip of land to farm and the lord's protection

  11. What was a key restriction on villeins?

    • They were not free to leave the land they worked
    • They were not allowed to marry anyone outside the village
    • They were not allowed to sell any crops at the market
    • They were not allowed to pray in the parish church

  12. Why did the feudal system depend on the idea of 'land for loyalty'?

    • Each level received a holy relic in return for protecting the church
    • Each level received land and owed loyalty and service in return
    • Each level swore loyalty to the Pope rather than to the king
    • Each level paid the king with gold for every piece of land

  13. Which group at the bottom of William's pyramid did most of the farming?

    • Knights, who fought for the king and kept the peace
    • The king himself, who owned all the land in England
    • Barons, who ran large estates in many counties
    • Peasants, who were mostly villeins

  14. Why did barons not farm all their land themselves?

    • The Church ruled that only peasants were allowed to plant crops on the land of any estate
    • It was against the law for barons to touch the soil of their own estates in any way
    • They could not provide all the knights or farm everything alone, so they passed land down
    • Their land was too far from their homes for them to visit it at all during the whole year

  15. Who was the king at the top of the feudal pyramid in 1086?

    • Harald Hardrada
    • William I
    • Harold Godwinson
    • Edward the Confessor

  16. What did the feudal pyramid look like in terms of layers?

    • A pyramid with three layers, with the barons at the top and peasants in the middle
    • A pyramid with four layers, with the king at the top and peasants at the bottom
    • A pyramid with two layers, with the king and the Church sharing the top
    • A pyramid with five layers, with the Pope at the top and knights at the bottom

  17. Why was the king at the top of the pyramid in the smallest space?

    • There were fewest people at the top, but the most power and land
    • The king was too busy to need much space for his court and servants
    • There was the least land to share between them at the top of the pyramid
    • The smallest space was reserved for the Church, which the king controlled

  18. What did a baron do to show loyalty to the king?

    • He swore homage
    • He built a monastery for each of his knights
    • He gave his castle to the Pope
    • He paid a fine in gold to the Church

  19. A baron with land in only one county wants to rebel. Why would William's scattering of lands make this harder?

    • His followers and power base would be spread out and hard to gather together
    • His tenants would all be moved to London to work for the king
    • His lands would be taken by the Church and given to his enemies
    • His estates would be combined into one large block of land under the king

  20. Which level of the feudal pyramid did villeins belong to?

    • The second layer, with the barons
    • The third layer, with the knights
    • The top layer, with the king
    • The bottom layer, the peasants

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