Grade 7 History tests and exam questions
Grade 7 History exam practice tests
Pick a topic below and start straight away. Every test is free, follows CAPS within Social Sciences, and shows an explanation with every answer.
African kingdoms, the slave trade and sources
Paper 1 · 3 topicsThe Cape, the British takeover and the frontier
Paper 2 · 3 topicsMixed test
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About Grade 7 History
Grade 7 history covers some of the heaviest content in the primary school: the transatlantic slave trade, the colonisation of the Cape and the conflict on the eastern frontier. It is not easy work, and it should not be.
The year begins somewhere else, though: at Mapungubwe and Great Zimbabwe. Southern Africa had rich, organised kingdoms trading gold and ivory as far as India and China, centuries before 1652. That fact changes the whole frame in which a child understands the rest of the year.
The skill that runs through everything is source criticism. A slave trader's register and a survivor's testimony describe the same voyage and say completely different things. A child must learn to ask who wrote a source and what interest that person had.
Frequently asked questions
The content is heavy. How is it handled?
Honestly and factually, as the curriculum requires. We do not soften the harm and we do not sensationalise it either. The emphasis falls on cause, consequence and the people who lived through it — not on graphic detail.
Why does the year start with Mapungubwe?
Because it corrects the context. Mapungubwe and Great Zimbabwe show that there were prosperous, organised states with international trade in Southern Africa long before any European settlement.
My child asks why the same event is told differently.
That is exactly the question the subject wants. For one group the Great Trek was a search for freedom; for another it was the loss of land. Both accounts are part of the history, and a child needs to know both.
Are these the same questions as in our PDF papers?
No. These are separate, original questions covering the same CAPS content.