Lesson Y7-U05-L03

Y7-U05-L03 Heaven, Hell and Holy Journeys Quiz: KS3 History, Unit 5

20 questions

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Lesson Y7-U05-L03, Heaven, Hell and Holy Journeys: 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 most powerful Church idea about life after death?

    • The belief that the Pope would crown every king in England
    • The belief that the Witan would choose the afterlife of each person
    • The belief that all souls would return as animals
    • Fear of hell and the hope of heaven

  2. What did the Church teach about hell?

    • It was a small island in the sea where the monks lived in peace
    • It was a place of eternal fire, demons and torture for sinners
    • It was a palace where the king ruled over the souls of the poor
    • It was a quiet village where the dead farmed the land for the lord

  3. What did the Church teach about heaven?

    • A battlefield where dead knights fought for the king eternally
    • A village of cottages where the peasants rested after labour
    • A market where the dead traded their sins for gold coins
    • A perfect place with God forever, the reward for a good Christian life

  4. Why did people feel dependent on the Church?

    • Only the Church could grow wheat and barley for the whole kingdom
    • Only the Church was allowed to hold markets and fairs in towns
    • Only the Church could forgive sins and help the soul reach heaven
    • Only the Church had the power to build stone cathedrals in England

  5. How did medieval people mark the day?

    • With drums played by the blacksmiths when the forge was hot
    • With trumpets blown by knights at the town gate every hour
    • With church bells that rang out the hours and called people to pray
    • With the sound of the lord's horn at the start of each day

  6. What did the Church do for people at birth, marriage and death?

    • It judged them in a court for their sins
    • It trained them to become knights and nobles
    • It taxed them at each stage of their lives
    • It baptised, married and buried them

  7. What was a tithe barn?

    • A barn where the lord kept his horses for hunting
    • A huge barn beside the church where tithes were stored
    • A barn in the fields where peasants stored their seed corn
    • A barn in the town where merchants stored wool for export

  8. What share of England's land did the Church own?

    • Around three-quarters
    • Around a quarter
    • Around a tenth
    • Almost none

  9. Why did bishops hold so much power?

    • They fought in the army and led the knights into battle each year
    • They were as rich as the greatest nobles and advised the king
    • They were forbidden from owning land and were paid by the Pope
    • They were elected by the peasants in every village to lead them

  10. Who did the Church answer to, besides the English king?

    • The Pope in Rome
    • The lord of each manor
    • The Witan in London
    • The sheriff of each county

  11. Why might a poor peasant resent paying the tithe?

    • It made him leave his village to work in the towns
    • It took a tenth of what he grew, even though he was already poor
    • It made him pay the lord's rent in advance each month
    • It forced him to fight in the lord's army each year

  12. Which group was most likely to be wealthy in a medieval village?

    • The cottagers who had no land and no animals
    • The lord and the Church, who received rents and tithes
    • The serfs who worked the lord's demesne each day
    • The labourers who were paid a daily wage for work

  13. Which of these best shows that the Church was powerful over people's minds?

    • People voted for the Church's leaders in village elections
    • People paid the Church a fee to attend church each Sunday
    • People ran the Church's farms on their own time each week
    • People believed only the Church could save their souls from hell

  14. Why did people want to avoid hell so strongly?

    • They believed it was a dull place where nothing ever happened
    • They believed it was eternal fire and torture for sinners
    • They believed it was a place where the lord could collect rents
    • They believed it was far away in the north of England

  15. Which building was the biggest and strongest in a medieval village?

    • The mill
    • The manor house
    • The tithe barn
    • The parish church

  16. Which two places did the Church teach that souls could go to after death?

    • The church and the town
    • The Witan and hell
    • Heaven and the manor
    • Heaven and hell

  17. A medieval historian says the Church 'controlled minds and money'. Which evidence best supports this?

    • The Witan's choice of king and its council meetings
    • The open field system that shared land between families
    • The Norman castles built on earth mounds across England
    • Fear of hell, combined with a tithe on every harvest

  18. Which of these was NOT part of the Church's power?

    • Tithes paid on every harvest
    • Electing the king through the Witan
    • Owning around a quarter of the land
    • Fear of heaven and hell over people's minds

  19. Why did the Church's wealth make it both powerful and resented?

    • It owned no land, so it was poor and needed to be protected
    • It was resented only by the king, who wanted all the tithes himself
    • It owned much land and taxed everyone, which gave power but also created anger
    • It kept all its money in the Pope's palace in Rome and gave nothing

  20. What did a parish priest do with the tithe?

    • He burned it in the church as a sacrifice to God each year
    • He gave it to the lord so that the lord could build a castle
    • He received the tithe as part of the Church's income for the parish
    • He sent it to the king to pay for the war in France

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