1) What's the name of this very ancient place in England? a) Temple of Rocks b) Stonehenge c) Circle of Stones 2) The Celts settled in the British Isles around 600 BC. Their descendants now speak Celtic languages, like Welsh, in Wales. a) True b) False 3) The Romans invaded in 43 AD and stayed for about 4 centuries. What name did they use for Britain? a) Hibernia b) Gallia c) Britannia 4) When the Romans invaded Britain, they also conquered all of the territory that is now Scotland.  a) True b) False 5) What does this map show? a) The Roman Empire b) The Roman invasion of Britain c) The Anglo-Saxon invasion of Britain 6) "England" means "the land of ▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁" a) the Jutes b) the Saxons c) the Angles 7) What language did the Anglo-Saxons speak? a) Old Norse b) Old English c) Old French d) Latin 8) What two words come from Old English? a) good b) volcano c) bad 9) The Vikings invaded in the 8th century and they were from... a) Central Europe b) Scandinavia (Norway, Denmark and Sweden) c) Italy 10) The name for the city of "York" is of Viking origin. The Vikings founded that city and they called it Jorvik.  a) True b) False 11) What two words come from Old Norse (the language that the Vikings spoke)? a) sky b) window c) spaghetti 12) The Normans were the last successful group of invaders. They came from Normandy (the north of France) and they invaded Britain in 1096.  a) True b) False 13) What important place in London did the Normans build? a) Hadrian's Wall b) The Titanic Museum c) The Tower of London 14) Who was the leader of the Normans? a) Emperor Claudius b) William, the Conqueror c) Emperor Hadrian 15) What two words come from Old French (the language that the Normans spoke)? a) potato b) justice c) liberty 16) What's the name of Britain's most famous writer? (He wrote "Romeo and Juliet" and other plays). a) Mark Twain b) J. K. Rowling c) William Shakespeare d) Richard Sampedro

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