Vikings

The area of Europe where the Vikings came from is now called

• England

• Scandinavia

• North America

• the Netherlands

The Vikings were best known for their great skill in

• drawing and painting.

• shipbuilding and sailing.

• studying and writing.

• singing and dancing.

The fiercest Viking warriors were known as

• sailors.

• jarls.

• navigators.

• berserkers.

Another name for the Vikings is

• Icemen

• trolls

• Inuit

• the Norse

Why did the Vikings take birds to sea?

• to keep the birds as pets

• to keep the birds from harm

• to eat the birds

• to help them find their direction when they were lost

Which of the following can be used to describe the Vikings?

• builders of great cities

• wise peacemakers

• fierce raiders

• great scholars

To go "a-viking" meant

• to wrestle.

• to hunt.

• to raid.

• to farm.

The Vikings navigated by using

• detailed maps.

• a compass.

• their voices.

• the sun and the stars.

Eric the Red was banished from Iceland and settled in

• Russia.

• Iceland.

• Greenland.

• Norway,.

Farmland was scarce (not enough) in the Viking homelands because of the

• many cold mountains

• many deserts

• lack of irrigation

• lack of oxen to pull plows.