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7th grade Feudal Europe: lords, vassals, knights and serfs, and life on a manor worksheet

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Feudal Europe: lords, vassals, knights and serfs, and life on a manor

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Circle the best answer.

  2. In the manor chain, one box leads to two effects. Which box is it, Ren asks?

    • No box in this chain leads to two effects
    • The serf owes work on the demesne
    • The lord owes protection
    • The lord lets a serf family farm fields

  3. What are the two effects of the serf family's fields, Tala asks?

    Use the picture in question 1.

    • Duties for the serf, and duties for the lord
    • Freedom to leave the manor
    • Duties for the serf, and nothing owed by the lord
    • One effect: the serf owns the manor

  4. In the income chain, which box has two causes leading into it, Zee asks?

    • The lord holds the manor court
    • The lord gains income besides crops
    • The lord owns the mill and bakery on the manor
    • No box has two causes

  6. What is the demesne, Ari asks?

    • The room where the manor court meets
    • The village bakery
    • The lord's own land on the manor
    • The serf family's fields

  7. Could a serf leave the manor freely, Bo asks?

    Use the picture in question 4.

    • No, not without the lord's permission
    • Yes, on any day of the year they chose
    • Yes, after each harvest
    • No, serfs had to move each year

  8. What did villagers pay charges for, Esme asks?

    • Joining a craft guild in a town
    • Working on the demesne
    • Swearing fealty
    • Grinding grain and baking

  10. Why would a lord want serfs to stay on the land, Jun asks?

    • Serfs owned the manor
    • Serfs paid the lord nothing
    • The lord needed their work
    • The lord had no fields

  11. Why did the manor court matter to a serf, Kira asks?

    Use the picture in question 7.

    • It was the village market
    • It paid the serf wages each week
    • It set serfs free
    • It was where the serf could get justice

  12. Milo's note says, "Serfs could move to another manor when they liked." Which fix is right?

    Use the picture in question 7.

    • Change it: they needed the lord's permission to leave
    • Change "manor" to "town"
    • Change "Serfs" to "Lords"
    • Leave it: serfs were free to move

  13. Noah's note says, "Serfs owed duties, and lords owed nothing." Which fix is right?

    Use the picture in question 7.

    • Leave it: duties went one way
    • Change "Serfs" to "Vassals"
    • Change it: lords owed protection and justice
    • Change "duties" to "fields"
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Feudal Europe: lords, vassals and serfs, and life on a manor. Every version has 10 questions, and the answer key prints on the second page.

What your child will learn

  • I can explain a fief, homage and fealty, and the duties a lord and a vassal owed each other.
  • I can read a manor chain where duties run both ways, explain that serfs were bound to the land, and show how the lord's income had two causes.
  • I can explain how work duties became cash payments, weigh what a serf gained and lost by moving to a town, and say why historians debate the word feudalism.

Standard: D2.Eco.1.6-8

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