Viking Quiz

A type of ship used by vikings for trade, raids, exploration and warfare?

• Longhouse

• Navigation

• Longship

• Monastery

A synonym for trade

• Raid

• Barter

• Possession

• buying

A building or buildings where a community of monks live, and practice religious worship.

• Church

• Kingdom

• Castle

• Monastery

What are the two countries of Scandanavia that are on the largest peninsula?

• Demark and Norway

• Norway and Sweden

• Finland and Norway

• Sweden and Demark

What is the smallest country of Scandinavia that had the most fertile soil?

• Demark

• Sweden

• Norway

• Finland

The word "Viking" actually mean ________ in Old Norse language.

• Barter

• Northmen

• Raider

• Trader

The vikings were actually known as the Norsemen which meant

• Tradesmen

• Men from the North

• Pirates of the coast

• Men of the land

A surprise attack by a small armed force is called a ...

• Battle

• Raid

• Settlement

• Scrimmage

A group of peninsulas in the region of Northern Europe that consists of Sweden, Denmark and Norway.

• Vineland

• Iceland

• Scandinavia

• Greenland

Why is most of the information historians get about vikings is from Monks?

• Monks write a lot

• Monks could not read or write

• Vikings destroyed their own books

• Vikings did not write their history down