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VIKINGS

Total questions: 12

Worksheet time: 6mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

How did most Vikings try to get rich?

a)

By looting other people

b)

By working as a trader or merchant

c)

By farming

d)

By making quality goods

2.

How did Vikings settle an argument?

a)

By having a holmgang

b)

By going to court

c)

By having the law-speaker give judgement

d)

The gods dueled for their favor

3.

What is the name of the Viking boat?

a)

A holmgang

b)

Norsemen

c)

Longboats

d)

Long Bows

4.

What is the name of the most violent Viking warriors?

a)

Vikings

b)

Berserkers

c)

Psychos

d)

Warriors

5.

What was the purpose of the “Thing”?

a)

To be a thingy thing

b)

To settle problems and make decisions

c)

To cause problems and serve punishment

d)

Where outlaws would gather after being forced to leave town

6.

How did their boats allow them to have a quick getaway after looting a village?

a)

They were lightweight and had flat bottoms to move quickly

b)

They were lightweight and had triangular bottoms to cut the water

c)

They were heavy and that allowed them to move fast

d)

The jet engines were heavy and they had flat bottoms

7.

The types of weapons and armor that a Viking carried depended on what?

a)

How rich they were

b)

How good of a warrior they were

c)

How weak they were

d)

What weapons the berserkers ate

8.

How did Vikings view “stealing?”

a)

If someone does not know they are being robbed, it is stealing

b)

If someone does know they are being robbed, it is not stealing

c)

You have to burn the other person's house down before you can take their stuff

d)

You had to fight and if you won you got their stuff

9.

If you broke the law, you became an ____________. They were forced to live in the wilderness and could be killed if found

a)

Outlaw

b)

Criminal

c)

Fugitive

d)

Thing

10.

What was the alphabet called?

a)

Runes

b)

Holmgang

c)

Beserker

d)

Norse

11.

What was the only way a Viking could enter Valhalla?

a)

Dying in battle with a weapon in their hand

b)

Dying in their sleep

c)

Being burnt on their ship after they died

d)

By knocking

12.

What was another name for the people called Vikings?

a)

Norsemen or Norse

b)

Horsemen or Horse

c)

Germanic Tribes

d)

Romans that were Greeks