Lesson Y7-U01-L02

Y7-U01-L02 Who Were the Anglo-Saxons Quiz: KS3 History, Unit 1

20 questions

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Lesson Y7-U01-L02, Who Were the Anglo-Saxons: 20 multiple choice questions for the KS3 History (National Curriculum), Unit 1: Year 7: England pre-1066, written with Revision Ninja.

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The 20 questions

  1. In roughly which year did the Romans leave Britain?

    • Around AD 450
    • Around AD 43
    • Around AD 1066
    • Around AD 410

  2. Name one of the three main Anglo-Saxon peoples.

    • Romans
    • Vikings
    • Angles
    • Normans

  3. Which group of people is the word 'England' taken from?

    • The Angles
    • The Normans
    • The Vikings
    • The Saxons

  4. Which modern countries did the Anglo-Saxons mainly come from?

    • France, Spain and Italy, which were all lands south of the Roman frontier
    • Greece, Turkey and Egypt, the lands of the eastern Mediterranean and North Africa
    • Germany, Denmark and the Netherlands
    • Norway, Sweden and Finland, the Scandinavian lands that were reached only by sea

  5. What does 'Heptarchy' mean?

    • A group of seven Roman towns in Britain
    • A group of seven main Anglo-Saxon kingdoms
    • A group of seven churches built by Anglo-Saxon monks
    • A group of seven Viking raiders in longships

  6. Which kingdom was in the south-west of England?

    • Wessex
    • Mercia
    • East Anglia
    • Northumbria

  7. Which kingdom covered the Midlands?

    • Mercia
    • Sussex
    • Kent
    • Wessex

  8. What is an inference?

    • A copy of a document made by a monk for a king
    • A piece of pottery or a tool dug up by archaeologists
    • A record of the exact date of an event written at the time
    • A careful guess made from evidence, based on what the clues suggest

  9. What is archaeology?

    • Creating new laws to protect the buildings of the past
    • Translating documents written in Latin into English
    • Writing down the exact dates of events in a chronicle
    • Digging up and studying objects that people left behind

  10. Bede wrote about the Anglo-Saxons around 300 years after they arrived. Why might this make his account less reliable?

    • He was a Roman soldier who was against the Anglo-Saxons arriving
    • He wrote in a language that no one in England could understand at the time
    • He only wrote about the kings and never mentioned the ordinary people
    • He was not present when they arrived, so he may have left out or misunderstood details

  11. The Romans had built roads and towns in Britain. Why did the Anglo-Saxons find Britain easy to settle after AD 410?

    • The Romans asked the Anglo-Saxons to run the government of Britain
    • The Romans had given all of their land to the Anglo-Saxon kings
    • Without a Roman army, Britain's towns and farmland had little protection
    • The Britons had built a huge navy that brought the Anglo-Saxons over

  12. Which of these is a PUSH factor for migration?

    • Flooding was destroying farmland on the North Sea coast
    • Some people were invited to Britain as hired soldiers
    • Britain had good, empty farmland with no one defending it
    • The Roman army had left Britain and could no longer defend it

  13. Which of these is a PULL factor for migration?

    • Population growth meant there was not enough land for families
    • Britain had good farmland that was empty and undefended
    • Their homelands were crowded and needed more food to feed everyone
    • Flooding and rising sea levels were drowning coastal villages

  14. Why do historians explain migration using push and pull factors?

    • Because migrants never move unless they are ordered to by a king
    • Because people usually move for more than one reason
    • Because push and pull factors always show the exact date of a move
    • Because push factors are only about religion and pull factors only about money

  15. What does the Heptarchy show about England before 1066?

    • England was already a single country ruled by one Anglo-Saxon king
    • England was split into exactly two kingdoms, one in the north and one in the south
    • There was no single England yet, with several rival kingdoms fighting for power
    • England was ruled entirely by Roman governors until the year 1066

  16. Which kingdom was founded by Jutes and based in Kent?

    • Kent
    • Mercia
    • Northumbria
    • Wessex

  17. Which Anglo-Saxon people settled in Kent and the Isle of Wight?

    • Jutes
    • Angles
    • Normans
    • Saxons

  18. Which monk named the main Anglo-Saxon peoples in his writing about the English?

    • Bede
    • Alfred
    • Augustine
    • William

  19. The Angles came from Angeln. Where was Angeln located?

    • Modern northern Germany or southern Denmark
    • Modern western Norway near the Arctic circle
    • Modern northern Italy near the Alps mountains
    • Modern southern France near the Mediterranean coast

  20. Which modern country did the Jutes come from?

    • Denmark
    • Norway
    • Poland
    • Belgium

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