Grade 7 History Term 3 Test 1 + Memo
About this resource
Help your Grade 7 learner prepare for their Term 3 History assessment with this 50-mark practice test, complete with a full memorandum. The test has a duration of 1 hour and covers key content relating to colonisation of the Cape and its impact on indigenous people.
The test covers:
- The VOC / Dutch East India Company
- Jan van Riebeeck and settlement at the Cape
- Reasons for establishing a settlement at the Cape
- Free Burghers
- The Khoikhoi and San
- The Huguenots and viticulture
- Slavery at the Cape
- Slave living conditions, rules and treatment
- Islam at the Cape
- The Harlem shipwreck
- The Cape as a halfway station
- Trek Boers
- Development of early Afrikaans
- Genadendal and mission stations
- Contact between the Dutch and Xhosa
- William Bleek and Lucy Lloyd
- Preserving San languages, stories and culture
- Effects of Dutch expansion on the Khoi and San
- Changes to the traditional Khoi way of life
The paper includes multiple-choice, true or false, matching, source-based questions, visual interpretation and paragraph writing, giving learners practice with a variety of History assessment skills.
Learners also work with a source on William Bleek and Lucy Lloyd and explore how their work helped preserve the languages, stories and cultural practices of the San people.
The final activity requires learners to write a 7–8 sentence History paragraph, providing valuable practice in using historical knowledge to construct a well-organised written response.
Total: 50 marks | Duration: 1 hour | Full memorandum included | PDF format.
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