HISTORY END OF YEAR 7 TEST 2015 1. Complete the following sentences: a) The king who died in January 1066 was called b) The man who became the next king was called c) A Viking King who invaded England in 1066 was called d) The Norman Duke who invaded England in 1066 was called e) The Vikings were defeated at the Battle of f) The Battle between the Normans and the English was called the Battle of g) Housecarls fought in the army of h) Cavalry were used in the army of i) The King of England killed in battle in 1066 was called j) The man crowned king of England on Christmas Day, 1066 was 2. Label the features of the castle. A. B. C. D G F E
3. List 3 reasons Normans built castles 4. Place these class of people in their correct order according to their power in the feudal system; The Lords/Barons, the peasants, the King, the Knights 5. Give three reasons for the Peasants Revolt
6. Give three reasons why Medieval towns were dirty and dangerous and one reason why they were not Give 3 reasons why Thomas Beckett and Henry II fell out.
Year 7 Test Read the two sources below and use the History Level Descriptors to answer the question: What was William the Conqueror really like? Source A Wherever William went, everyone laid down his arms. No one tried to stop him. William was kind to everyone, especially the common people. Often his face revealed the pity in his heart. He ordered mercy to be shown when he saw poor people, or noticed mothers and their children pleading for help. William gave many Englishmen very generous gifts. He did not unfairly take lands from the English and give it to the French. Written by William of Poitiers The Deeds of William, Duke of the Normans published in 1073 at the command of King William I Source B William and his nobles were greedy for gold and silver and did not care how they got it. The King took land from the English without pity and gave it to the highest bidder. He did not care about how the land was seized from the English or what the result was for the English people. The Normans did not care about the law, the more unlawful things were done. They raised unfair taxes and they did many other things too horrible to tell. From the Anglo Saxon Chronicle which is the story of the Anglo Saxons. It was written by monks and scribes through the 9 th to 12 th centuries and was kept in monasteries
HISTORY END OF YEAR 8 TEST 2014 1. Identify whether the following statements would be Catholic or Protestant: The service of the Mass is in Latin The Head of the Church is the Monarch The Head of the Church is the Pope There are statues of Saints and the Virgin Mary Ministers are allowed to marry 2. Name the man who was caught in the cellars of parliament in the gunpowder plot. 3. Against which monarch was the gunpowder plot aimed? 4. List 3 reasons why the English Civil War began Reason One - Reason Two - Reason Three - 5. Who did the Roundheads support? 6. Who did the Cavaliers support? 7. Name one of the Battles of the Civil War? 8. In which century did the Civil War take place? 9. What weapon did Musketeers use? 10. Who were the Cavalry? 11. In what year was King Charles I executed? 12. Who ran the country after the King s execution?
13. In what year did the Great Fire take place? 14. Which famous diarist recorded the Great Fire? 15. Give three reasons why the fire spread so quickly Reason One - Reason Two - Reason Three 16. List 3 countries that belonged to the British Empire 17. Below is the Slave Trade Triangle. On the diagram label a) Places b) Movement of cargo / slaves
Using all four sources and your own knowledge, answer the question: Were pauper apprentices in factories all treated the same in the nineteenth century? A: In the room they entered, the dirty, ragged miserable crew. Lean and distorted limbs sallow and sunken cheeks dim hollow eyes a look of hideous premature old age. Extract from Michael Armstrong: Factory Boy by Francis Trollope in 1840. This book described the working conditions for pauper apprentices. (Frances Trollope generally wrote fictional stories that would be read for pleasure.) B: At a little distance from the factory stands a handsome house, two stories high, built for the accommodation of the female apprentices. They are well fed, clothed and educated. The apprentices have milk-porridge for breakfast, potatoes and bacon for dinner, and meat on Sundays. From The Philosophy of Manufactures by Andrew Ure in 1385. (Andrew Ure visited factories in the 1830s and wrote about the working conditions that he saw.) This picture was painted for the book Michael Armstrong: Factory Boy by Trollope, 1840. It shows factory children eating scraps from a pig s trough. D: Some pauper apprentices worked in factories owned by caring factory owned by caring factory owners. They were well fed, educated and were taught a trade. Other children were unlucky and became cheap slave labour. They were often injured by the dangerous factory machinery. Taken from a modern History text book.
Total /27 HISTORY END OF YEAR 9 TEST 2015 1. What were the 4 long term causes of World War One? Cause 1 - Cause 2 - Cause 3 - Cause 4-2. Whose assassination triggered WW1? 3. Who assassinated him? 4. What year did WWI begin? 5. What year did WWI end? 6. What was the armistice? 7. What was the name of the peace settlement dealing with Germany at the end of WWI? 8. In what year was this peace settlement signed? 9. Can you give three features of this settlement?
Total /27 10. What was the League of Nations? 11. What was the policy of appeasement? 12. What year did Hitler and the Nazis come to power? 13. Give three reasons for the Nazis success in the 1930s 14. What was the Final Solution? 15. What is a Death Camp? 16. Name 3 key events in WWII and the dates in which they occurred. 17. What was operation Sea Lion? 18. What was Operation Barbarossa?
Total /27 Using all 5 sources and your own knowledge, answer the following question: Was the Battle of the Somme a success for the British?