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Unit Quiz

How “dark” were the Dark Ages?

This quiz will help you to assess your learning of key concepts and knowledge in this unit.

Due to the overlap in knowledge and themes, the following 'Early Middle Ages' Unit Quiz assesses knowledge from the following enquiries: 1) How Dark were the Dark Ages?, 2) Why has Alfred been remembered as the Great? and 3) How Powerful was the Pope? The Unit Quizzes for these enquiries are all the same quiz on the Early Middle Ages.

Q1.Where did the Anglo-Saxons come from?

The Roman EmpireIrelandNorthern GermanySpain

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Q2.What is the name of a person who digs up the remains of human activity?

A historianA builderAn archaeologistAn undertaker

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Q3.What happened to towns after the Roman Empire abandoned Britain?

They became bigger and more beautiful.They fell into ruin and almost vanished.They stayed the same.

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Q4.What happened to the quality of life in Britain when the Romans left?

Life got much better.Life got much harder.Life stayed the same.Life got better, then worse.

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Q5.What is the name of the group of important Anglo-Saxons who advised King Ine?

The ParliamentThe WitanThe Great CouncilThe Government

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Q6.Who sent people to Britain to convert the Anglo-Saxons at the end of the 6th century?

The VikingsThe Pope in RomeThe King of ScotlandThe Roman Emperor

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Q7.Which of the following was not an Anglo-Saxon kingdom?

MerciaNorthumbriaWessexScotland

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Q8.What was the religion of the Vikings?

ChristianMuslimPaganNot religious

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Q9.Alfred was king of which Anglo-Saxon kingdom?

MerciaNorthumbriaWessexEast Anglia

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Q10.What was the name of the area where the Vikings were in charge in England?

The DanelawThe Viking RegionGuthrum's LandScandinavia

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Q11.Who were Alfred's children?

Edward and AethelstanAethelstan and AethelflaedEdward and AethelflaedEdward and Aethelred

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Q12.Where did Anglo-Saxon kings send Peter's Pence?

Select one (1) boxes

RomeLondonFranceAachen

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Q13.Alfred the Great...

Select two (2) boxes

...was an Anglo-Saxon king who ruled from 871 to 899....was a pagan who hated Christianity....made a trip to Rome in the 850s when he was a boy....forced every household in England to pay Peter's Pence once a year.

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Q14.Who lived in Constantinople?

The PopeThe head of the Eastern ChurchThe head of the Western ChurchThe Pentarchy

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Q15.Why did the Eastern and Western Churches find it difficult to talk to each other? (Tick 2 boxes)

Select two (2) boxes

Most people in the Eastern Church spoke GreekMost people in the Eastern Church couldn't readMost people in the Western Church spoke LatinThe pope was shy and didn't like speaking to other people

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Q16.What did Pope Leo III crown Charlemagne in 800?

Select one (1) boxes

King of the Frankish EmpirePope Charlemagne IHoly Roman EmperorAlcuin of York

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