World History - Middle Ages - MCQs with answers - Part 2
1. When was the kingdom between the Rhine and Rhone rivers created?a) 843
b) 864
c) 876
d) 877
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: a) 843
A kingdom between the Rhine and Rhone rivers was created for Lothair by the Treaty of Verdun. It was first of the treaties that divided the Carolingian Empire into three kingdoms.
a) 911
b) 918
c) 987
d) 996
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: c) 987
Hugh Capet was the first “King of the Franksâ€. He succeeded the last Carolingan king, Louis V.
a) 911
b) 918
c) 987
d) 996
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: a) 911
He was the last East Frankish ruler of the Carolingan dynasty.
a) 918
b) 955
c) 987
d) 996
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: b) 955
The Battle of Lechfeld was a decisive victory for Otto I the Great, King of the Germans.
a) Charlemagne's descendants were politically weak and disunited
b) Vikings began raiding northern France
c) Charlemagne's grandsons divided the empire into three parts
d) All the above
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: d) All the above
The breakup of the Carolingian Empire was accompanied by invasions, migrations, and raids by external foes. The Atlantic and northern shores were harassed by the Vikings who raided the British Isles and settled there as well as in Iceland.
a) Denmark
b) Germany
c) Iceland
d) Scandinavia
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: b) Germany
The Ottonian dynasty was a dynasty of German Kings.
a) 681
b) 864
c) 917
d) 923
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: a) 681
The First Bulgarian Empire was an early medieval Bulgarian state founded in the north-eastern Balkans.
a) 924
b) 927
c) 1014
d) 1018
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: d) 1018
The Byzantine Empire is alternatively known as the Eastern Roman Empire. Its capital city was Constantinople.
a) AD 300 - AD 1600
b) Beginning of Byzantine through the end of the Roman Empire
c) Beginning of Early Christian through the 13th or 14th centuries
d) End of the Roman Empire through the Byzantine period
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: c) Beginning of Early Christian through the 13th or 14th centuries
The Vikings had settled in the British Isles and France. Norse Christian kingdoms were developing in their Scandinavian homelands.
a) The arrival of Scyld Scefing in Denmark
b) The birth of Beowulf
c) The death of Beowulf
d) The defeat of the monster Grendel
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: a) The arrival of Scyld Scefing in Denmark
Beowulf is the first great English epic poem set in Scandinavia.
