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Year 8 History

VIKING REVISION QUIZ

1. When was the age of Viking Invasions?
a. Approx. 600 - 800 AD
b. Approx. 700 - 1100 AD
c. Approx. 800 - 1066 AD
2. What is the name of the Viking's main God? He had one eye, a raven and an eight-legged horse.
a. Odin
b. Thor
c. Mars

3. From which countries did the Vikings come?
a. Sweden, Germany and Norway
b. Norway, Finland and Denmark
c. Norway, Sweden and Denmark

4. What are the "taxes" called that the English kings were forced to pay to the Danes so they wouldn't attack
them?
a. Danegeld
b. Danagold
c. the Danish fee
5. Which weekdays are named after Viking gods?
a. Monday, Tuesday, Sunday
b. Thursday, Wednesday, Friday
c. Saturday, Sunday, Monday

6. What are Viking signs/symbols called?

a. Cyrillics b. Runes c. Hieroglyphics

7. What was the symbol of the Viking god Thor?
a. Arrow
b. Hammer
c. Sword

8. What was the place called where the Viking warriors came after being killed in battle?

a. Yggdrasil
b. Valkyria
c. Valhalla

9. What crops did Viking farmers grow?

a. Spelt wheat, cabbages and peas
b. rice, lettuce and bananas
c. wheat, tomatoes and olives

10. Did the Vikings have horns on their helmets?
a. NO b. YES


11. What was the Scandinavian body for the administration of justice called?
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a. Hof b. Thing c. Codex


12. What was Ragnark in Nordic mythology?
a. The end of the world
b. The birth of the world
c. The place where the Giants lived
13. In what year did Vikings, under leadership of the Viking chief Ragnar Lodbrok, attack and lay to Paris in
France? Paris had to pay a tribute of 7,000 pounds of silver to the Vikings for them to raise the siege, which
the Vikings received and then occupied Paris anyway.

a. 978 b. 845 c. 1087

14. What did the Vikings call Constantinople?
a. Holmgrd
b. Miklagrd
c. Jorsala
15. Although the exploits of the Vikings in Iceland, Greenland, and even the New World were well known
across Europe their involvement there ended about:
.
.a) AD 1420
b) AD 1020
c). AD 1512

16. The Vikings sailed from Northern Europe across the Atlantic to inhabit Iceland. What exiled Icelander
discovered Greenland around AD 970.

a. Bjarni Herjollsson
b. Leif Ericsson
c. Eric the Red
d. Freydis Eriksdottir

17. Viking houses in Europe usually had roofs made of
a. slate or stone
b. wooden shingles
c. reeds or straw

18. Chain mail was a type of:
a. armour
b. message system
c.torture implement

19. A knorr was
a. a trading ship
b. a vegetable soup
c. a worker in the fields

20. The Viking people were
a. rapists, pillagers and architects
b. warriors, traders and explorers
c. monks, missionaries and warriors