Example: a real quiz from this tool
Input: “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.”
- How did the Ordinance of Labourers (1349) and the Statute of Labourers (1351) aim to address the labour shortage? A. By encouraging workers to leave their jobs · B. By raising wages to attract more workers · C. By maintaining wages at pre-plague levels ✓ · D. By allowing landlords to evict tenants
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. - In what way did the Peasants' Revolt of 1381 reflect deeper grievances beyond the immediate trigger of the poll tax? A. It was solely about tax reform · B. It demanded an end to serfdom ✓ · C. It sought to increase land ownership · D. It aimed to establish a monarchy
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. - What was the long-term effect of the competition for tenants among lords after the Black Death? A. The complete abolition of serfdom · B. An increase in the number of serfs · C. A decline in the power of the Crown · D. The offering of freer terms to tenants ✓
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.
Why date-recall quizzes don't help much in history
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.
Write your notes so the quiz can test analysis
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.
Questions about sources and evidence
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.
Frequently asked questions
Will it just ask me what year things happened?
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.
Can I use it on a primary source?
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.
Does it add facts that are not in my reading?
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.
Does it work for essay-based subjects like politics or classics too?
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.