Paste a history reading or your own notes and get a multiple-choice quiz on causes, consequences and evidence, each answer explained from your text. The first 5 questions are free with no signup.
“The Ordinance of Labourers (1349) and the Statute of Labourers (1351) ordered wages to be held at pre-plague levels. The immediate trigger of the Peasants' Revolt of 1381 was a poll tax levied at the same flat rate on rich and poor, but the rebels' demands, including an end to serfdom, show that deeper grievances were involved. In the long run serfdom continued to decline, because lords competing for scarce tenants increasingly offered freer terms.”
Why: These laws were designed to hold wages at pre-plague levels and made it illegal for workers to refuse work or leave their employers, attempting to control the labour market.
Why: The source indicates that while the poll tax was the immediate trigger, the rebels' demands included an end to serfdom, highlighting deeper issues related to labour and social status.
Why: The source explains that as lords competed for scarce tenants, they increasingly offered freer terms, leading to a gradual decline in serfdom in England.
Knowing that the Peasants' Revolt happened in 1381 is useful, but essays and source papers reward something else: explaining why it happened, separating the trigger from the underlying causes, and judging how far one factor mattered compared with others. A quiz that only asks "in what year" trains you to memorise a timeline and leaves the analytical part untouched.
The generator is prompted to write mechanism and consequence questions, not just definitions, and dates show up mainly where they matter to the argument (for example, laws passed straight after the plague to hold wages down). You can see this in the example: none of the three questions can be answered by remembering a year.
The AI can only ask about links your text actually makes. Notes that say "1348 Black Death. 1351 Statute of Labourers. 1381 Peasants' Revolt" will give you a chronology quiz. Notes that say the Statute tried to hold wages at pre-plague levels because the plague had created a labour shortage will give you a cause-and-effect question. Use connecting words in your notes, because, so, which led to, despite, and the quiz will follow them.
If your course asks you to weigh interpretations, include them. A line such as "some historians stress the poll tax, others long-term resentment of serfdom" lets the quiz ask you to distinguish a trigger from a deeper cause, which is exactly the distinction mark schemes look for.
Source analysis questions ask who produced a document, why, and what that means for how it can be used. If your reading says the chroniclers were mostly clergy close to the ruling class, the quiz can ask why historians read them alongside court and tax records. Paste the provenance information along with the content of a source and you will get provenance questions; paste only the content and you will only be tested on what it says.
Not if your text explains more than dates. The prompt asks for a mix of definition, mechanism, consequence and contrast questions, so causes and effects that your notes spell out are what get tested. If you paste a bare timeline, a timeline quiz is all it can make.
Yes. Paste the extract along with its origin, who wrote it, when and for what purpose, and the quiz can test both what the source says and why it might be one-sided. For a scanned document, attach a photo or PDF; printed text and legible handwriting are read with AI text recognition.
Answers are grounded in the text you provide. Wrong options may name other real events (for example, the Hundred Years' War as a distractor), because plausible distractors are what make a question worth answering, but the correct answer always comes from your text.
Yes. Anything built on arguments and evidence works the same way: include the reasoning in what you paste, not just the conclusions. Multiple-choice will not replace essay practice, but it is a quick way to check you can recall the causes and evidence before you start planning an answer.
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