Q.1
Before about 1750, farmers used what system?
  • 1-field system
  • 2-field system
  • 3-field system
  • 5-field system
Q.2
One of the 3 fields was always left...what?
  • Fallow
  • Farrow
  • Follow
  • Furlow
Q.3
Why was one field left fallow?
  • For the Lord of the Manor to use
  • To allow the soil to recover its goodness
  • To give the children somewhere to play
  • Villagers didn't have time to farm all three fields
Q.4
Why did farmers need to produce more food?
  • Appetites increased in the late 18th century
  • Low yields meant a government fine
  • They were in competition with each other
  • To feed a rising population
Q.5
What was one advantage of the old 3-field system?
  • Animals could wander across the crops
  • Paths were needed to separate the strips
  • The land could be shared out easily
  • Time was wasted walking between strips
Q.6
By the early 1800s what had happened to the fields?
  • The three fields had merged into one
  • They had been burnt
  • They had been enclosed
  • They had been sold to the highest bidder
Q.7
Who did not suffer as a result of enclosure?
  • Landowners
  • People who lived in the woods
  • People who lived on common land
  • Tenants with no legal rights
Q.8
Acts of Parliament of which year made enclosure compulsory?
  • 1795
  • 1801
  • 1806
  • 1812
Q.9
Why did clay and lime come to be used on the land?
  • As fertilizer
  • To build animal pens
  • To clean farm tools
  • To make the fields look more colorful
Q.10
Which county gave its name to a 'Four-course crop rotation' system?
  • Devon
  • Kent
  • Norfolk
  • Somerset
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