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Year 6 Crime & Punishment Quiz

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 5mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which is the term used to describe a group of people who decide whether or not a person is guilty?

a)

Judge

b)

Trial

c)

Jury

d)

Lawyer

2.

Which of these didn't exist during the Roman times?

a)

Not sending a child to school

b)

Stoning

c)

Crucifixion

d)

Prison

3.

How was crime often punished during the Anglo-Saxon era?

a)

Prison

b)

Death Penalty

c)

Weregild

d)

It wasn't

4.

What is meant by 'claiming sanctuary'?

a)

Leaving your home

b)

Guilty of a crime

c)

Running to the safety of a church

d)

Escaping from prison

5.

What increased when Henry VIII closed the monastries?

a)

Money given to the King

b)

Prison sentences

c)

Religion

d)

Theft by poorer people

6.

What would happen if you killed your father in Roman times?

a)

Burning at the stake

b)

Branding by hot coals

c)

Tied in a sack of snakes and thrown into a river

d)

Paid compensation

7.

Who came to Britain in the years following the Vikings & Anglo-Saxons?

a)

Normans

b)

Romans

c)

Victorians

8.

As it was difficult to catch criminals in the Roman times, what did people do?

a)

Commit a crime in retaliation

b)

Wait for the police to help

c)

Write curse tablets

9.

What became known as the 'neck verse'?

a)

Stoning

b)

Being able to recite a Bible verse in Latin to avoid death

c)

The death penalty

d)

Being put into the stocks

10.

Who used trial by ordeal?

a)

Victorians

b)

Anglo-Saxons

c)

Romans

d)

Normans