Test

Question 1

Feudal system

Answer 1

Kings lords nights peasants

Monarch tenants sub tenants peasants

Question 2

What was the role of the medieval society

Answer 2

The role of the pope is to lead the Catholic Church

Question 3

Illuminations

Answer 3

hand-painted illustration in a medieval book

Question 4

Reeve’s

Answer 4

a magistrate administering law in a village

Question 5

Franklin’s

Answer 5

in the fourteenth century, one who was a landowner but not a member of the nobility

Question 6

Illuminations

Answer 6

hand-painted illustration in a medieval book

Question 7

tithe barns

Answer 7

a barn where peasants’ produce is stored as a form of taxation

Question 8

thatch

Answer 8

straw used for making roofs

Question 9

deposed

Answer 9

removed from a position of authority

Question 10

Franks

Answer 10

people of a group of a Germanic nation who ruled in western Europe from the sixth century CE

Question 11

martyred

Answer 11

killed or made to suffer because of religious beliefs

Question 12

pagan

Answer 12

someone who is not a Christian, Jew or Muslim, but who worships many gods

Question 13

superstition

Answer 13

a belief based on custom or fear rather than knowledge or reason

Question 14

holy relics

Answer 14

the physical remains of someone or something very significant to a religious tradition

Question 15

orb

Answer 15

globe with a cross, symbolising a Christian monarch’s rule

Question 16

feudalism

Answer 16

social order in medieval Europe

Question 17

lords

Answer 17

chief position in the feudal system below the monarch

Question 18

clergy

Answer 18

officials of the Church

Question 19

homage

Answer 19

pledging duties and loyalty to someone of superior rank in the feudal system

Question 20

sceptre

Answer 20

rod symbolising royal authority of the monarch

Question 21

Geld

Answer 21

a form of land tax