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Castle Learning Center:
Castle Quiz

© 2001-2003 Marvin Hull
Test your common knowledge about castles with our monthly castle quiz.

Directions: To test your knowledge about castles answer each of the following true/false questions and then click 'Check Your Score' to see how you did. All wrong answers will have a check mark beside them.


1] The banquet was used to impress a lord's guests with his generosity and his wealth.
2] The largest meal, breakfast, was served at 8am.
3] A lord's dinner only consisted of two courses.
4] Potatoes and corn was not used until the 16th century.
5] Dovecotes were built to house and breed pigeons during the year; when winter came, the birds were killed for sport.
6] Fish from the castle's pond would be gathered to augment the winter's food stores.
7] England was the primary consumer of wine during the Middle Ages.
8] The lower classes main foodstuffs consisted of only bread.

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