HISTORY TERM 1 TEST 1 GRADE 5

QUESTION 1
Answer the following questions.
1.1. How can we learn more about the San and the KhoiKhoi?
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1.2. What do we call the time in history when tools were made of stone?
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1.3. Why do we call the San people hunter collectors?
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1.4. Why do we call the San people nomads?
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1.5. Name the different tasks men and women had to do?
- Men: ________________________________________________________________
- Women: _____________________________________________________________

QUESTION 2
Complete the following sentences.

2.1. The first people who live in South Africa were called ___________________
2.2. The San people got their food and water from their ___________________________
2.3. The San people made tools from __________________ and ________________
2.4. The San people were ________________________ and didn’t stay in one place.

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HISTORY TERM 1 TEST 2 GRADE 5

QUESTION 1

Underline the correct answer in the brackets

1.1. During the dry season the San people kept their water in (chicken/ ostrich) egg
shells.
1.2. The San people believed in their god known as (Shaman/ Kaggen).
1.3. The San people used a plant named (hoodia/ buchu) to stop their hunger and thirst.
1.4. The Khoikhoi were (Herders/ hunters) because they kept animals like sheep, goats
and cows.
1.5. The South African (flag/ Coat of Armor) has a picture of rock art on it.

QUESTION 2

State whether the following is true or false.

2.1. The bows of the San were made from strong elastic branches. _________
2.2. The San people made their tools from iron. _________
2.3. Archaeology is the study of objects to learn how people lived in the past. _________
2.4. Linton is in the Eastern Cape _________
2.5. The Khoikhoi was the earliest residents in South Africa. _________

QUESTION 3

Answer the following questions.

3.1. Name the two kinds of animals from which the San people got their meat?
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HISTORY TERM 1 TEST 3 GRADE 5

QUESTION 1

Give a definition for the following words:

1.1. Stone age:

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1.2. Hunter gatherer:
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1.3. Archaeologist:
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QUESTION 2

Match column B to column A and write your answer in column C

Column A Column B Column C

2.1. People who make a living to buy, shell or A. Hunter collector

exchange goods
2.2. People who make a living by hunting animals and B. Shepherds
to collect food from the land
2.3. Period of 10 years C. Farmers
2.4. Period of 100 years D. Traders
2.5. People who move with their animals from one E. Millennium
place to another
F. Century
G. Decade

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