Earliest times The Saxon invasion, the Celtic kingdoms

Test 2

Test 1

Earliest times Britain’s prehistory, the Romans

1. Choose the right option(s). What affects life in every country?

A land B climate

C Parliament D King

2. Choose the right option. Britain had become an island by …

A 10.000 BC B 6.000 BC

C 5.000 BC D 3.000 BC

3. Complete the list. “Henges” were centres of religious,………power.

1 religious

2……………..

3……………….

4 Choose the right option. What were Chalkland people famous for?

A henge civilisation B Greek civilisation

C Roman civilisation D Ploughing civilisation

5. Choose the right option(s). What were the Beaker people good at?

A hunting deer B metalworking

C growing barley D making pottery beakers

6. Choose the right option. Where were the Beaker people buried?

A separately

B in the old communal burial barrows

7. Write the answer. Did the Beaker people ruin or reinforce Stonehenge?

8. Choose the right option. Who was the first to learn to enrich the soil with natural waste material?

A the Calkland people

B the Beaker people

C the Neolithic people

9. Choose the right option and complete the sentence. The Celts came from central Europe or further east and from southern…

A Greece

B Italy

C Russia

10. Choose the right option. Who were better at metalworking?

A The Beaker people

B The Celts

11. Choose the right option. Who are the ancestors of the Scots, Irish and Welsh?

A the Saxons

B the Romans

C the Celts

12. Choose the right option and complete the sentence. The Celts …

A invaded Britain

B came peacefully

C we do not know for certain

13. Choose the right option. Who are these words of Julius Caesar about?

A the Belgic tribes

B the indigenous Celts

C the Gauls

14. Choose the right option. Who was a good food producer in the 1^st century BC?

A Rome

B Gaul

C Britain

15. Choose the right option. Who are the words “very careful about cleanliness and neatness. Neither man nor woman, however poor, was seen either ragged or dirty” about?

A the Romans B the Celts

C the Saxons D the Gauls

16. Choose the right option(s). The most important members of the Celtic tribes in the 1^st century BC were….

A peasantry

B priests

C fishermen

17. Choose the right option(s). Who were illiterate in Britain in AD 1-3century?

A rich landowners

B Roman soldiers

C peasantry

D priests

E town dwellers

18. Choose the right option(s). What was the purpose of the Roman wall?

A to show their excellent building skills

B to make the border between the two later countries England and Scotland

C to keep out raiders from the North

19. Choose the right option. Rome pulled its last soldiers out of Britain in….

A AD 367

B AD 406

C AD 409

20. Choose the right option. The ending chester / caster / cester came from the word….

A camp

B civitas

C coloniae

21. Choose the right option. What is ‘villa’?

A a beautiful palace

B a big house

C a large farm

D a small farm

22. Choose the right option. The life of … people greatly improved during the Roman period.

A rich

B both rich and poor

23. Choose the right option. The population of the Roman Britain was …

A 5mln people

B 1mln people

C 10mln people

24. Choose the right option(s). Celtic Britain produced ……… for export.

A honey

B timber

C corn

D fish

25. Choose the right option. Life expectancy in Roman Britain was approximately….

A 40 years

B 35 years

C 30 years

D 20 years

1. Match the tribes and the places of their settlement:

1.Jutes 2.Angles 3.Saxons

A East and north Midlands B South of Britain C Kent

2. Choose the Celtic names from the lists:

Towns: A Manchester, B London, C Oxford, D Liverpool, E Leeds, F Birmingham

Rivers: A Tyne, B Avon, C Thames, D Severn

3. Which suffixes of place names belong to the Saxon period?

A -ing, B -ton,

C -ham, D -burg,

E -chester, F -shire,

G -county, H -llan

4. Choose the right options. Which days of the week were named after Germanic gods?

A Sunday B Monday

C Tuesday D Wednesday

E Thursday F Friday

G Saturday

5. Write the answer. What Saxon institutions grew into a Primary Council?

6. Choose the right option. Who was the king’s local administrator?

A landlord

B sheriff

C archbishop

7. Choose the right feature(s):

1.The Celtic pattern of farming     2.The Saxon pattern of farming

A) small square fields B) large square fields C) long strait lines D) short straight lines E) a light plough F) a heavy plough G) three fields

8. Complete the list with two more main tasks the manor house had.

A people came to pay taxes

B………………..

C……………….

9. Choose what the word lord meant:

A bread maker

B bread keeper

10. Choose the right option. When was the first Archbishop appointed in Britain?

A 597

B 601

C 875

D 1066

11. Complete the list. Write two ways more in which the Church increased the power of the English state.

1 establishing monasteries – centres of education

2…………….

3…………..

12. Chose the right option(s). What did Britain export and import?

1. exported   2. imported

a-cheese b-jewellery c-hunting dogs d-woolen goods e-wine f-fish g-pottery h-pepper i-metal goods j-wheel-made pottery

13. Chose the right option(s). What country was considered to be a land of monasteries?

A Scotland

B Wales

C Ireland

14. Chose the right option. Who is considered to be the patron saint of Ireland?

A St.Paul

B St. Andrew

. St. Patrick

15. Chose the right option. Who was Dublin founded by?

A the Romans

B the Normans

C the Vikings

16. Chose the right option(s). Who inherited their rights, their names and property from their mothers?

A. the Celts

B. the Britons

C. the Angles

D. the Picts

17. Continue the list. The Picts, the Britons, the Scots had in common:

A language

B…………….

C……………..

D……………..

E…………….

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