How trade, towns and guilds grew in the Middle Ages

Grade 7 Social Studies Worksheet - Challenge Me

Circle the best answer.

2. 1.

   In the guild chain, the guild's rules lead to two effects. What are they, Ari asks?

   • Goods met standards, and competing got harder
   • Just one effect
   • Rules ended guilds
   • Prices fell to zero
3. 2.

   Critics and defenders judged guild rules differently. What does the chain help Bo see?

   Use the picture in question 1.

   • The rules had no effects
   • Critics and defenders agreed
   • The rules were good for each person and nothing else
   • One cause had a helpful and a harmful effect
4. 3.

   Which effect would a guild's defenders point to, Esme asks?

   Use the picture in question 1.

   • Newcomers found it hard to compete
   • Guilds set no rules
   • Goods met the guild's standards
   • Towns lost their charters
6. 4.

   What did a master give an apprentice, Jun asks?

   • Food, lodging and training
   • A workshop of his own to run
   • A town charter
   • Daily wages
7. 5.

   Which step could run a workshop and take apprentices, Luz asks?

   Use the picture in question 4.

   • Merchant at a fair
   • Journeyman
   • Apprentice
   • Master
9. 6.

   Why might a guild limit the number of apprentices, Milo asks?

   • Because apprentices were paid daily
   • To lower quality
   • To train many more new workers much faster
   • To keep competition down for its masters
10. 7.

    Why would a guild set quality rules, Noah asks?

    Use the picture in question 6.

    • So no one would buy
    • So buyers could trust the goods
    • So goods would break
    • So prices had no limit
11. 8.

    Ren's note says, "A journeyman ran the workshop and trained apprentices." Which fix is right?

    • Leave it: journeymen were masters
    • Change "journeyman" to "master"
    • Change "apprentices" to "merchants"
    • Change "workshop" to "fair"
12. 9.

    Tala's note says, "Guild rules had one effect: better goods." Which fix is right?

    • Change "better" to "worse"
    • Change it: they also made competing harder
    • Leave it: rules have one effect
    • Change "guild" to "Hansa"
13. 10.

    Zee's note says, "An apprentice was paid by the day." Which fix is right?

    • Change "day" to "year"
    • Leave it: apprentices earned wages daily from the start
    • Change "An apprentice" to "A journeyman"
    • Change "paid" to "crowned"