Семестровый тест по страноведению (Великобритания). 10 класс

Семестровый тест по страноведению.  10 класс.

1. What is the official name of the main English-Speaking  country?

2. What are the parts of the UK? Name their capitals.

3. Where is the UK situated?

4. What is the longest river of the UK?

5. What is the highest point of the UK?

6. What is the name of the English currency?

7. Who were the first people on the British Isles?

8. Who were the Celts? How did they live? Name their tribes. What was their religion?

9. How many times did the Romans try to conquer Britain?

10. Name Anglo-Saxon tribes. Where did they come from? What did they do?

11. Who was William the Conqueror? Where did he come from? Who became the center of the A-S resistance?

12. Why did Normans build towers?

13. What do you know about Alfred the Great? What were his achievements?

14. What is Magna Charta? Who signed it? What were the reasons?

15. What did Magna Charta do?

16. What document became the first step to the constitutional monarchy?

17. Who fought in the Hundred Years War? What was the reason for it?

18. Name two noble families who began a struggle for the throne in the War of Roses?

19. What dynasty came after the War of Roses?

20. Who was the most powerful person in the dynasty of Tudors? What was he famous for?

21. Who is the head of the UK?

22. What is the Constitutional Monarchy?

23. When was the British Constitution written?

24. Name the houses the British Parliament consists of.