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The Feudal System

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 20mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is the bottom level of the feudal system?

a)

serfs

b)

knights

c)

vassals

2.

What is the second highest class in the feudal system?

a)

kings

b)

vassals

c)

nobles

d)

knights

3.

What are fiefs?

a)

castles

b)

knights

c)

shares of land

d)

warfare battles during the Middle Ages

4.

What is the middle level in the feudal system?

a)

kings

b)

vassals

c)

nobles

d)

knights

e)

serfs

5.

The feudal system was built around ________________.

a)

warfare

b)

the Silk Road

c)

China

d)

India

6.

True or false. Serfs couldn't get married without the permission of the lord.

a)

True

b)

False

7.

Lords are also named ___________ in the feudal system.

a)

Vassals

b)

Knights

c)

Nobles

d)

Fiefs

8.

Serfs could only leave the manor if they ____________.

a)

saved enough money to buy their freedom and some land.

b)

escaped and survived a year and a day without getting caught.

c)

All of the above

9.

During the middle ages, a large, self-sufficient estate with farmland and sometimes whole villages is a _______________.

a)

town

b)

house

c)

castle

d)

manor

10.

Manors were ruled by ___________.

a)

Peasants

b)

Serfs

c)

Kings

d)

Lords

11.

A set of unwritten rules between a lord and a vassal is a ___________.

a)

Declaration of Independence

b)

constitution

c)

feudal contract

d)

written set of rules

12.

Lords collected __________ from peasants who farmed the land.

a)

Taxes

b)

Harvests

c)

All of the above

13.

By 1000 CE, feudalism had taken over ___________.

a)

a tree

b)

China

c)

Eastern Europe

d)

Western Europe

14.

Lesser nobles are called _____________.

a)

germs

b)

peons

c)

vassals

d)

servants

15.

Many vassals were also _________________.

a)

knights

b)

serfs

c)

hot dogs

d)

fiefs

16.

In the feudal system, fiefs were grants of land to ______________.

a)

serfs

b)

kings

c)

vassals

d)

nobles

17.

True or false. Feudalism declined after the 1200s.

a)

True

b)

False

18.

Feudalism is dependent on __________.

a)

money and loyalty

b)

military service

c)

food and service

d)

all of the above

19.

The _________ was a way of organizing economic, political, and military needs in Western Europe in the Middle Ages.

a)

religious system of the Middle Ages

b)

guild system

c)

feudal system

d)

European Serf Society

20.

What is the highest class in the feudal system?

a)

kings

b)

vassals

c)

serfs

d)

nobles

e)

fiefs