Grade 7 History November Test + Memo
About this resource
Help your Grade 7 learner prepare for their Term 4 November History assessment with this 50-mark practice test, complete with a full memorandum. The test has a duration of 1 hour and covers colonisation of the Cape and co-operation and conflict on the frontiers of the Cape Colony.
The test covers:
- The VOC and Jan van Riebeeck
- The Cape settlement in 1652
- Scurvy and the Cape halfway station
- Trekboers and Dutch expansion
- Khoikhoi and indigenous communities
- Effects of Dutch colonisation
- Loss of land and resources
- European diseases and forced labour
- Voortrekkers and inboekselings
- Labour on Voortrekker farms
- Co-operation and conflict on the Cape frontiers
- Robert Moffat and the Kuruman Mission Station
- The spread of Christianity
- Bible translation into Setswana
- Missionaries, education and literacy
The paper includes matching, short-answer, source-based and extended writing questions, giving learners practice in both historical knowledge and source interpretation.
Learners complete a source-based activity on the lives of inboekselings and a 7–8 sentence paragraph on the impact of Dutch colonisation on indigenous communities.
The final section includes a 100–120 word essay on Robert Moffat, focusing on the Kuruman Mission Station, Christianity, education, challenges he faced and his impact on local communities and future missionaries.
Ideal for November exam revision and additional Grade 7 History assessment practice.
Total: 50 marks | Duration: 1 hour | Full memorandum included | PDF format.
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