Feudal Life Work Sheet
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Sheet 1
Name
Mark(s)
Feudal Life
1.
/20
What is a fief?
/1
2.
What were the people at the bottom of the feudal Pyramid called?
/2
3.
What was the Lord supposed to do for the people living on his land?
/1
Read more about Feudal life
4.
What did the peasants have to do with most of their crop?
/1
5.
What household tasks were women allowed to do?
/5
6.
What other things did some women do when threatened by attackers?
/2
7.
What jobs were done by women?
/8
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Name
Mark(s)
Religion
8.
/15
What is a “diocese’?
/2
9.
Who controlled the “diocese’?
/1
10.
What did that call a very big Church?
/1
More about religion
11.
What vow did a monk have to make and what did this mean?
/6
12.
How many times did a monk have to go to the church per day?
/1
13.
What did the monk do in the church during the day?
/3
14.
What was a pilgrimage?
/1
Bonus Question click on Collapsed Cathedral
15.
Which Cathedral Collapsed and when did they finish building this
Cathedral. ?
bonus
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Sheet 3
Name
Mark(s)
Homes
16.
/15
Describe the house used by a villein family?
/4
17.
How many rooms in a family house?
/1
18.
Describe a rich person’s house?
/5
19.
What was the ‘hearth” and what two functions did it play in the peasant
family’s house?
/2
20.
How did this differ from the way rich people cooked there food?
/3
Bonus Question
21.
Using the information on (Middle age Homes
http://www.regia.org/houses.htm), what was the size of the small home?
bonus
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Name
Mark(s)
Clothing
22.
/14
What type of clothing did most people wear?
/3
23.
What type of clothing was a sign of great wealth?
/3
24.
What was a monks clothing called?
/1
25.
What did the Poor Clare Sisters have to do to be allowed to wear socks?
/1
Bonus Questions Click on Medieval Hats
26.
Which people wore the following hats?

Linen Head

Straw or felt

Visored

Wimple

Butterfly
/1
/1
/1
/1
/1
Read More
27.
What was the most popular jewellery?
/1
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Name
Mark(s)
Health
28.
/10
According to medieval people, how did some diseases spread?
/1
29.
What did these people do to treat these diseases?
/3
Click on medieval MD
Diagnose three patients and list below the correct MEDIEVAL treatment for them.
30.
Your patient has black and blue blotches all over her body. You are fairly
certain it is the plague. What treatment do you prescribe?
/1
31.
Your patient has taken to his bed with chills, a fever, and a terrible
headache. When you examine him, you find pimple-like spots covering his skin.
Your diagnosis is smallpox, a contagious disease common in your time.
/1
32.
You have a patient who is showing all the signs of having leprosy, what
do prescribe for the treatment?
/1
More Reading Questions
33.
What was the most common surgery performed?
/1
34.
What was in one of the potions used to induce sleep during surgery?
/2
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Name
Mark(s)
Art and Entertainment
35.
/5
Where were Musical dramas performed?
/3
Click on Story Weaver
36.
What type of art work was used to tell stories about hunting?
/1
Click on ‘more about tapestries’ and answer the questions below
37.
The Bayeux Tapestry shows the story of how a King conquered England.
What is the name of this king?
/1
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Name
Mark(s)
Town Life
38.
/15
What type of people lived in towns?
/2
39.
How did the towns get their independence from their local lord?
/1
More reading about Towns
40.
Why were the Guilds set up?
/2
41.
List the names of the various guilds or merchant types?
/6
42.
Which craft or guild was the most respected of the guilds and why was
this so?
/4
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