1.4.4.1.Homes and Households Reading Questions

As wooden houses aged, they tended to _______.

• fall

• Lean

Medieval towns were typically small and crowded.

• true

• false

Rooms were

• cold

• warm

Houses were brightly light

• false

• true

Growing up in a medieval town was easy

• true

• false

Boys grew up to do the same work as ...

• Their fathers

• Their mothers

Medieval towns could be described as all of the following except....

• Clean, Innovative

• Dirty, full of diseases

• Crowded, Cramped

• Where people moved for jobs

Mostly, girls in the middle ages

• were taught to do house work

• had the same job as their parents

• could be any profession they wanted

Which of the following is true about towns from the Late Middle Ages?

• Towns were protected by stone walls

• Town streets were often very narrow

• Towns often smelled of garbage

• all of the above

Which of the following is true about poor families' homes during the Middle Ages?

• Multiple families sometimes shared a home.

• Houses in poor neighborhoods had solars.

• Windows would be made of thin glass.

• all of the above