Social Classes in Medieval Times

This term refers to a vassal who fights for the noble in return for a fief.

• knight
• monarch
• peasant
• serf

This term refers to the lowest class in Medieval society.

• serf
• monarch
• noble 
• vassal

True or False: Peasants were born into their social class but they could become a nobles if they worked hard enough.

• True
• False

In which order below were the social classes of the Early Middle Ages? 

• Nobles
  Kings
  Peasants
  Vassals
• Kings 
  Lords
  Knights 
  Peasants
• Knights
  Vassals
  Serfs
  Peasants
• Peasants
  Knights
  Nobles
  Vassals

The main duty of a peasant is to ___________ for ________________. 

• Protect the king; land
• work the land; protection
• work the land; food
• protect the lords; land

The __________________ made up the majority in the feudal system. 

• Kings
• Knights
• Nobles
• Peasants/Serfs

In feudal society, what was a peasant farmer who was not free to move called?

• serf

• knight

• Crusades

• Clergy

Middle Age knights followed a code of conduct called...

• Bushido
• Honor
• Chivalry
• Code of Justinian

Which of the following is an example of a monarch?

• President
• Mayor
• Queen
• Prime Minister

In feudalism, whose job was it to manage and defend their land and the people on it?

• Merchant
• Peasant/Serf
• Monarch/King
• Lord/Noble