Pickles AcademyStart for freeLife in the past – practice for Years 4–5
Sample questions on Life in the past with the right answer and a worked solution, from easy to hard. In the Pickles Academy app a child gets new questions of the same kind every time, so they can't just learn the answers by heart.
- Subject
- Social studies
- Year
- Years 4–5
- Curriculum area
- People and time
Question types: In the Middle Ages or later?
Rule: Life in the past
In the Middle Ages people lit candles, wrote with quill pens, travelled by horse and cart and ground grain in watermills.
Light bulbs, trains, cars, telephones, bicycles and cameras came in the 19th century; TVs and computers in the 20th.
Example: A sword, a wooden plough, a clay pot and a bread oven were all known in the Middle Ages.
Watch out: There was no electricity in the Middle Ages: nothing that needs power (a bulb, a fridge, a phone) existed yet.
Sample questions
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Question 1 Easy
Which of these did people in the Middle Ages NOT have yet?
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Answer: B) an electric light bulbHow it works: a clay pot – known in the Middle Ages; an electric light bulb – invented later; a wooden plough – known in the Middle Ages; a sword – known in the Middle Ages; a watermill – known in the Middle Ages
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Question 2 Normal
Which of these did people in the Middle Ages NOT have yet?
Show the solution
Answer: D) a telephoneHow it works: a wooden plough – known in the Middle Ages; a candle – known in the Middle Ages; a bread oven – known in the Middle Ages; a telephone – invented later; a sword – known in the Middle Ages
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Question 3 Hard
Which of these did people in the Middle Ages NOT have yet?
Show the solution
Answer: B) a telephoneHow it works: a sword – known in the Middle Ages; a telephone – invented later; a candle – known in the Middle Ages; a clay pot – known in the Middle Ages; a watermill – known in the Middle Ages
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