Middle Ages Questions

The Middle Ages is often divided into which periods?

Which Vikings primarily went west to Scotland, Ireland, Iceland, Faroe Islands, Greenland, and North America?

Who led the Peasants’ Revolt of 1381 in England?

Bread was typically used as a plate in the Middle Ages. What exactly was this bread plate called?

What was the name of the part of England that established Viking laws in the late 9th century?

Medieval people were always drunk as water was always unsafe to drink, so alcohol was always consumed in place of it.

The Vikings wore horned helmets.

Vikings were farmers and fishermen more often than they were raiders and pillagers.

Which of these is NOT part of the Carmina Burana?

Vikings did most of their activities during the summer, because it was when they could travel the seas the most safely.

The kingdoms of Anglo-Saxon England (Wessex, Sussex, Essex, Northumbria, Mercia, East Anglia, and Kent) were called the

Which of these Anglo-Saxon kingdoms was formed by the Jutes?

Medieval people (especially commoners) were always very filthy and unhygienic, and they never bathed.

Which of these gods and goddesses did the pre-Christian Vikings and Anglo-Saxons NOT worship?

How long did the Viking Age last?

Which of these instruments was NOT used in medieval music?

Which Vikings primarily went east, founded the Kievan Rus’, traded with the Byzantines, and were known as “Varangians”?

Who is called “the father of English literature”?

What name is given to the lowliest type of peasant in medieval society, whom were bound to the land owned by their lord?

What ended the antiquity period and started the early medieval period?

When and where is Beowulf set?

What is NOT a reason that the period following the fall of the Western Roman Empire is called the “Dark Ages”?

Which of these was not a medieval dance?

Which of these languages had little to no influence on the English language throughout its evolution?

Which of these did NOT cause the Great Famine of 1315-1317:

What group of nomadic pastoralists had an empire spread throughout Asia, the Middle East, and parts of Eastern Europe?

What was the most major event that led to the transition from Middle to Early Modern English?

Which of these is NOT a character in Beowulf?

Which of these is NOT part of The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer?

Peasants were the poorest people in medieval society. Where did they typically live?

Which of these things had nothing to do with the transition from the medieval to early modern period?

Which of these was NOT a result of the Medieval Warm Period?

What made up the majority of the medieval peasant diet?

Which of these is NOT a Middle English poem?

What was the first Anglo-Saxon kingdom to convert to Christianity, and when did they convert?

What is the name of the oldest secular song in English, which is lamenting the end of summer and coming of bad weather?

How did the English language evolve?

Who were the last Europeans to convert from paganism to Christianity?

Which of these Anglo-Saxon kingdoms was NOT formed by the Angles?

How long did the Middle Ages last?

Where were the Vikings originally from?

Which Minnesänger wrote the song “Palästinalied” during the Fifth Crusade?

Which of these names is not used to describe the disease that wiped out about half of Europe in the mid-14th century?

Which modern-day North Germanic languages descend from Old West Norse and Old East Norse?

What were believed to be the body’s “four humors” in the Middle Ages?

Which of these foods was known as the “white meat” of the peasant diet?

Which of these is NOT an Old English poem?

Which of these was NOT one of the three kingdoms of Charlemagne’s Carolingian Empire following the Treaty of Verdun?

Which of these places did the Vikings NOT go to?

What was the dominant religion in medieval Europe?

Which of these Anglo-Saxon kingdoms was NOT formed by the Saxons?

A style of medieval music and storytelling involved using two languages, often Latin and a vernacular. This is called:

Who were the traveling musicians who composed and performed Old Occitan poetry and music in the High Middle Ages?

What is the name of the song King Richard the Lionheart wrote while imprisoned at Dürnstein Castle in Austria?

What is the name of the cookbook with recipes compiled by the master cooks of King Richard II in England around 1390?

Which Vikings primarily settled in England and Normandy (France)?

Which of the following was NOT a medieval recipe?

Medieval people had lower life expectancy simply due to higher child mortality rates, and were not “elderly” at age 30.

Beowulf was part of a Germanic tribe. He was a(n)…

Which Germanic peoples migrated to Britain from what is now Germany, Denmark, and Netherlands in the 5th century?

What is NOT a reason that scholars do not like using the term “Dark Ages”?

What was the dominant political system in medieval Europe?

What is the name of the collection of 254 poems and dramatic texts from the High Middle Ages? One poem is “O Fortuna”.

The Eastern Roman Empire lasted 977 years longer than the Western Roman Empire. What is another name for this empire?