Test 4. Anglo-Saxon Britain.

1. Choose the right variant.

1. Germanic tribes began enslaving Britain in

a) the 4c. BC

b) the Ic. AD

c) the 5c. AD

2. Their names were

a) the Vikings

b) the Scots & the Picts

c) the Angles, the Saxons, the Jutes.

3. The first Germanic kingdom in Britain was

a) Kent

b) Mercia

c) Wessex.

4. The legendary king who headed the struggle of the Celts against the invasion was

a) Egbert

b) Arthur

c) Hengist.

5. The country that was a centre of Celtic culture and a stronghold of Christianity was

a) Scotland

b) Britanny

c) Ireland.

6. The Anglo-Saxons were converted to Christianity

a) in the 7c. AD

b) in the 3c. AD

c) in the 8c. AD.

7. Jn the 7^th century great king Edwin advanced his frontier to the north and built his stronghold of Edinburg. It was in this kingdom that English art flowered for the first time. Sculptured crosses were created and poems of Caedmon and the Latin Ecclesiastical History of Bede were written in English. Which kingdom is meant?

a) Sussex

b) Northumbria

c) Essex.

8. He forced the Danes to retire, rebuilt churches, brought foreign scholars, founded schools. His name was.

a) Edward the Confessor

b) Ethelwulf

c) Alfred the Great.

9. In 886 the attacks of the Danes ceased because

a) the country was divided into 2 parts

b) the Danes were driven out of England

c) the king bought off peace 10. The Council that advised the King in Anglo-Saxon times was called

a) Privy Council

b) Great Council

c) Witenagemot.

11 .England was submitted to a Danish King Canute and became a part of Danish Empire in

a) 888

b) 1016

c) 1066

12. He was brought up in Normandy and came back to England with Norman friends and clergy. His main interest was the church and it was he who founded the Westminster Abbey

a) Edward the Confessor

b) Ethelred the Unready

c) William of Normandy.

13. The leader of anti-Norman party in the XI c. was

a) Godwin

b) Canute

c) Harold.

14. The last Anglo-Saxon king before the Norman Conquest was

a) Godwin

b) Harold

c) Edward,

15. The pretext for the Conquest was

a) Edward's death

b) the Pope's order

c) the fact that Harold Godwin's son broke his oath.

Test 5. England in the XVIII- XIX centuries.

1. Answer the following questions in written form:

1) Was there much opposition to the regime of William III in Ireland? In Scotland?

2) What acts were passed by Parliament when William III and Mary 11 had been declared King and Queen?

3) What political parties were there in England during the Civil Wars of the XVII cent.?

4) What parties had formed by the late XVII c.?

5) What is the origin of the term "The Whigs"?

6) What is the origin of the term "The Tories"?

7) Were the parties of the country equally represented in Parliament?

8) What inventions stimulated the development of industry?

9) What remained the principal sources of power in the early XVIII c.?

10) Who made the vital advance in the construction of steam engines?

11) Where were Watt's steam engines used?

12) Did the ending of Napoleonic wars open a vast market for British goods?

13) Why did exports fall in 1815?

14) Why did Egypt become especially important for Britain after 1869?

15) Why were the Boers displeased with the British?

16) What caused "the swing to the East" in British Colonial policy?

17) WTien were the first English trading companies set up?

18) What happened when Britain's hold on her colonies had loosened?