Y2 Victorians Assessment

What is your name?

What is your class?

• Hawthorn
• Hazel
• Chestnut

Q1. What do these pictures tell us about the differences between rich and poor?

• A. Rich people lived next to poor people

• B. Poor people lived in homes close together

• C. Rich people had lots of windows

Q2. Why might Mary McDonald have stolen boots?

• A. She was a criminal

• B. She was too poor to afford shoes

• C. She did not like the person

Q3. Why did the rich want to stop paying for the 'poor relief' to help those who could not find work. Tick which ones are true.

• They didn't need the poor to work as much

• They thought poor people were lazy and it cost too much money

• They could not afford to help the poor.

• The poor said they did not want any help

Q4. Homeless children from the Victorian era were sometimes made to live in what type of building?

• A. Hotel

• B. Campsite

• C. Beach Hut

• D. Workhouse

Q5. What is a 'workhouse'?

• A. A place where adults go to work

• B. A place for the poor to live and work

• C. A factory

• D. A gym to work out

Q6. Why was life in the workhouses so hard?

• A. You were made to work very hard and dangerous jobs

• D. You had to wake up early

• The houses were not nice to live in

• You had to share a room with everyone

Q7. What does this floor plan tell us about life in a Victorian workhouse?

• A. There were lots of rooms.
• B. People lived in large houses together.
• C. Families would have been separated.
• D. Boys and girls had their own playground.

Q8. Why is Richard Oastler remembered?

• A. He wrote letters and speeches about how horrible workhouses were for children.
• B. He owned a workhouse.
• C. He was the prime minister who got rid of workhouses.
• D. His children died in a workhouse