Lesson Y7-U03-L05

Y7-U03-L05 How Far Did the Normans Change England Quiz: KS3 History, Unit 3

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Lesson Y7-U03-L05, How Far Did the Normans Change England: 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. Roughly what share of the English population were the Normans, the ruling group after 1066?

    • About 1 in 50 people
    • About 1 in 500 people
    • About 1 in 5 people
    • About half of all people

  2. Which language did the new ruling class speak after 1066?

    • Old English
    • Latin only
    • Norman French
    • Old Norse

  3. Which language did the Church and official records use after 1066?

    • Old Norse
    • Latin
    • Norman French
    • Old English

  4. Which language did ordinary English people keep speaking at home and in the fields?

    • English, or Old English, the language of ordinary people in their homes and the fields
    • Latin, the language used by the Church for services and for many official records of the kingdom
    • Old Norse, the language of the Vikings who had settled in the north and east of England
    • Norman French, the language of the new ruling class in the palaces and courts

  5. Which of these was a change the Normans made to the Church?

    • They replaced English bishops and abbots with Normans
    • They removed the Pope from authority over the English Church
    • They allowed priests to marry and have families in every village
    • They closed every monastery and sent the monks to work on farms

  6. Which great cathedrals did the Normans build in stone?

    • York, Lincoln and Bath
    • London, Bristol and Chester
    • Durham, Canterbury and Winchester
    • Oxford, Cambridge and Salisbury

  7. Why did the Normans build huge stone cathedrals?

    • To give the English a place to store their wool and grain
    • To provide cheap housing for the peasants who had lost their homes
    • To collect the taxes that the Church had refused to pay the king
    • To show God's power and Norman power in stone

  8. Which part of Church life stayed the SAME after the Norman Conquest?

    • The English language was banned from every church service
    • Ordinary people still attended their local parish church
    • All English bishops were replaced by Norman bishops
    • Every village was forced to build its own stone cathedral

  9. What was the Normans' main way of dealing with their small numbers?

    • They relied on the English nobles who had joined them after 1066 to run every county for them
    • They relied on having the largest army in Europe at all times to crush any kind of revolt
    • They relied on changing the things that let them control, such as the Church and language
    • They relied on trading with the Vikings for food and horses to feed their soldiers in England

  10. Why were English words for live farm animals different from French words for cooked meat?

    • French cooks were the only people allowed to raise animals on farms
    • English peasants raised the animals, while French-speaking lords ate the meat
    • English farmers cooked the meat for French soldiers to eat at dinner
    • The Church made a rule that animals must have English names but meat French

  11. Which pair of words shows the French influence on the names of meat?

    • Sheep and cow
    • Pig and sheep
    • Cow and pig
    • Beef and pork

  12. What is the main reason that English is so rich in vocabulary today?

    • English absorbed thousands of French words after the Norman Conquest
    • English was replaced by Latin in every village after 1066
    • English was replaced by Norse words after the Vikings settled the north
    • English borrowed thousands of words from the Romans after AD 410

  13. Why do historians weigh change against continuity?

    • To work out how many Normans could fit inside a single castle
    • To count the number of stone cathedrals built in each county
    • To judge how much a conquest really mattered for ordinary people
    • To decide which Norman knights should be given the highest rank

  14. What was the Normans' main method of controlling the English Church?

    • Letting the English Church elect its own bishops without any Norman input
    • Closing all churches so that people could only pray in private at home
    • Appointing Norman bishops and abbots and reforming it in line with Rome
    • Moving the Church's wealth to the Danelaw to pay for Norman armies

  15. Which stricter Church rule did the Normans bring in?

    • Priests were allowed to marry openly in every parish church
    • Monasteries were closed and their monks sent to work on farms
    • Church services were held only in the Norman French language
    • Priests were required to be celibate, meaning they could not marry

  16. Why did the Church matter so much to ordinary people's lives?

    • It marked births, marriages, deaths and Sunday worship
    • It ran the local courts that judged every crime in the village
    • It owned all the land that villagers used to farm and graze animals
    • It collected all the rent that peasants paid to their lords

  17. What did a 1090 list of England's bishops probably show?

    • The bishops had all been replaced by monks from the Danelaw
    • The English bishops had all been restored to their old posts
    • The Church had been moved from England to Normandy entirely
    • The Church leadership had been largely taken over by Normans

  18. Why is it hard to say the Normans changed England completely?

    • The Normans gave all English people full rights as citizens of Normandy
    • Every English village was rebuilt as a Norman town within a decade
    • Much of ordinary life, such as farming and village life, carried on as before
    • The Normans removed every English word from the language within a generation

  19. Which of these words for live farm animals came from English?

    • Cow, beef and pork
    • Beef, pork and mutton
    • Pig, pork and mutton
    • Cow, pig and sheep

  20. What was the Normans' main motive for reforming the Church?

    • To move the English monasteries closer to the Danelaw in the north
    • To pay for the wars that William had fought against the Danes
    • To give the English Church full independence from the king
    • To control the Church and reward their loyal followers

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