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Life in Medieval Towns

Total questions: 17

Worksheet time: 9mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

A written grant of rights and privileges by a ruler or government to a community, class of people, or organization

a)

Contract

b)

Law

c)

Charter

d)

Agreement

2.

An organization of people in the same craft

a)

Guild

b)

Group

c)

Trade

d)

Union

3.

Choose ALL of the options of services that guilds provided....

a)

High standards for their craft

b)

Protection for doing a certain type of work

c)

Free teaching of their craft

d)

Plays from the bible relevant to their craft

4.

A person who works for a master in a trade or craft in return for trading

a)

Master

b)

Journeyman

c)

Apprentice

d)

Leader

5.

A body of rulings made by judges or very old traditional laws that become part of a nation's legal system

a)

Common Law

b)

Commonality

c)

Court System

d)

Trial by Combat

6.

What led to the surplus of food and trading in Medieval Europe? (More than 1 correct)

a)

More variety of seeds

b)

Improvements in agriculture technology

c)

Better weather

d)

Better farming practices

7.

A reason towns grew wealthier

a)

Trade of food

b)

Surplus'

c)

Specialization

d)

Factories

8.

The practice of towns becoming very good at making certain types of goods (glass, silk, cloth, etc.)

a)

Guilds

b)

Specilization

c)

Trade

d)

Surplus

9.

Two main types of guilds (Choose 2)

a)

Craft

b)

Merchant

c)

Agriculture

d)

Clothing

10.

The Jewish communities of this time faced many prejudices, but what was a profession they were allowed to do?

a)

apprentices

b)

slaves

c)

farmers

d)

bankers/moneylenders

11.

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

a)

Clean, Innovative

b)

Dirty, full of diseases

c)

Crowded, Cramped

d)

Where people moved for jobs

12.

Mostly, boys in the middle ages

a)

were taught to do house work

b)

had the same job as their father

c)

could be any profession they wanted

13.

Mostly, girls in the middle ages

a)

were taught to do house work

b)

had the same job as their parents

c)

could be any profession they wanted

14.

Reasons for spread of diseases: (Choose all correct)

a)

Unhealthy living conditions

b)

No running water

c)

Used chamber pots that were emptied into the streets

d)

No cures for common diseases

e)

No one new how diseases were spread (Jews were often blamed)

15.

Determining guilt or innocence by having the person fight a duel

a)

Trial by combat

b)

Trial by ordeal

c)

Court System

16.

Requiring a person to undergo torture (or some traumatic event) to determine guilt or innocence

a)

Trial by ordeal

b)

Trial by combat

c)

Court system

17.

Dolls, toys (wooden swords), Rolled hoops, Badminton, Lawn Bowling, Blind Man's Bluff are examples of ....

a)

Trials by combat names

b)

Trials by ordeal names

c)

Children's games

d)

Names of guilds