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Ancient Ireland Revision Quiz

Total questions: 39

Worksheet time: 1hrs 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The time before written history is called ______________.

a)

Prehistory

b)

Paleolithic Period

c)

Mesolithic Period

d)

Neolithic Period

2.
What did the OLD stone age people live in?
a)
Caves
b)
Houses
c)
Tee-pees 
d)
Villages
3.

_____________________ are different from fossils because they are items that are made by humans.

a)

Technology

b)

Artefacts

c)

Migration

d)

Nomad

4.
How did the Caveman explain their stories?
a)
Wrote a book
b)
Wrote in the dirt
c)
Wrote on cave walls
d)
Used sign language 
5.

The ____________________ period is also called the Middle Stone Age. It refers to the time before the Neolithic period and the time after the paleolithic period.

a)

Mesolithic Period

b)

Neolithic Period

c)

Paleolithic Period

d)

Prehistory

6.
What material were the first tools made from?
a)
Stones and bones
b)
Stones and metal
c)
Bones and glass
d)
Metal and wood
7.

Which stone was best for making tools?

a)

Flint

b)

Granite

c)

Sandstone

d)

Chalk

8.

What were the primary occupations of people during the Mesolithic Era?

a)

Hunters & Gatherers

b)

Toolmakers

c)

Farmers

9.

________________________ hunted animals and gathered berries, vegetables, and other items for their food source.

a)

Artefacts

b)

Domestication

c)

Agriculture

d)

Hunter/Gatherer

10.
Nomadic means to
a)
Sleep in tents
b)
Move around frequently
c)
Stay in one place
11.

Burying people with object (food, weapons, tools) proved that Neolithic people believed in ...

a)

Death

b)

Afterlife

c)

Family bonds

d)

Hunting and Gathering

12.
Neolithic 
a)
Old Stone Age
b)
New Stone Age
c)
Middle Stone Age
d)
Flintstone Age
13.
One Way that farming changed the way people lived was____________________.
a)
They no longer were nomads
b)
Life expectancy was shorter
c)
They had to move around to new farms
14.

Raising animals to use or eat, such as pigs, cows, and chickens is called ___________________________.

a)

Domestication

b)

Migration

c)

Hunter/Gatherer

d)

Archaeology

15.
Farming was a good thing because....
a)
It helped them stay alive longer
b)
It let them stay in one place
c)
It gave them plenty of food
d)
All of the above 
16.

The Bronze Age in Ireland was between

a)

7000BC and 5000BC

b)

500 BC and 500 AD

c)

4000 BC and 2000 BC

d)

2000 BC and 500 BC

17.

Bronze is an alloy of ......

a)

iron and tin

b)

gold and copper

c)

silver and tin

d)

copper and tin

18.

What were the big changes by the Bronze Age? Hint - there is more than one answer!

a)

People were now farmers, growing food

b)

They kept animals like cows and goats

c)

They lived in villages

d)

They wrote books about their life

e)

They wove cloth to make clothes

19.

The name given to Bronze age people who made pots and cups from Bronze was

a)

Bronze cup people

b)

Beaker people

c)

Pottery people

d)

Mesolithic people

20.

Smiths worked with bronze to make tools, weapons and jewellery

a)

True

b)

False

21.

Which of the following 2 graves were Bronze Age graves

a)

Cist Tomb

b)

Passage Tombs

c)

Dolmens

d)

Wedge Tomb

22.

Bronze Age people used Fulacht Fiadh to cook food

a)

True

b)

False

23.

Identify the harvesting tool, used in farming.

a)

plow

b)

sickle

c)

axe

24.

The Iron Age is the period after the ______________.

a)

Stone Age

b)

Bronze Age

c)

Copper Age

25.

The warrior people who lived in Europe in the Iron Age were known as _______________.

a)

Celts

b)

Gaelic

c)

Romans

d)

Welsh

26.

The Celts lived around the same time as...

a)

the dinosaurs

b)

the Victorians

c)

the Romans

d)

woolly mammoths

27.

Who were the Celtic priests?

a)

the druids

b)

the nobles

c)

the slaves

d)

the freemen farmers

28.

Which 2 are Celtic houses?

a)

Portal Dolmen

b)

Crannog

c)

Ringfort

d)

Wedge Tomb

29.

Fences, ditches and walls around Celtic houses tells us that:

a)

Celtic people were very private people

b)

Celtic people needed to defend their house

c)

Celtic people did not build communities

d)

Celtic people were very skilled

30.

What was the Celtic alphabet known as?

a)

Latin alphabet

b)

Celtic alphabet

c)

Ugham

d)

Ogham

31.

What was the Celtic style of art known as?

a)

La Tene

b)

La Bene

c)

Ta Lene

d)

Celtic

32.

Celtic society was very civilised. The (a)   were the noble, skilled people.

33.

What is this?

(a)  

34.

What is this? (Answer is not Newgrange)

(a)  

35.

What is this?

(a)  

36.

What is this?

(a)  

37.

What is this?

(a)  

38.

What is this?

(a)  

39.

What is this?

(a)