The Vikings IELTS Reading Answers
The Academic passage ‘The Vikings’ is a reading passage that appeared in an IELTS Test. Read the passage below and answer questions 27- 40. Beyond the questions, you will find the answers along with the location of the answers in the passage and the keywords that help you find out the answers.
The Vikings
Answers
| Question number | Answer | Keywords | Location of keywords |
|---|---|---|---|
| 27 | obscure | However, the origins of the word ‘Viking’, itself, are obscure: | Paragraph B;
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| 28 | 793 | Vikings sailed to England in AD 793 to storm coastal monasteries, and subsequently, large swathes of England fell under Viking rule – indeed several Viking kings sat on the English throne. | Paragraph C;
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| 29 | Northwest Africa | archaeological record has yet to verify that Vikings raided as far away as Northwest Africa, as some writers claim. | Paragraph D;
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| 30 | local populations | The issue of control and extent is complex because many Vikings did not return to Scandinavia after raiding but assimilated into local populations, often becoming Christian. | Paragraph E;
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| 31 | religious | Initially, Vikings were polytheists, believing in many gods, but by the end of the age, they had permanently accepted a new monotheistic religious system – Christianity. | Paragraph E;
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| 32 | F | the most reliable contemporary sources on Vikings come from writers from other cultures, like the ninth-century Persian geographer, Ibn Khordadbeh. | The whole of Paragraph J |
| 33 | D | In addition to augmenting nationalism, nineteenth-century thinkers were influenced by an Englishman, Herbert Spencer, who described peoples and cultures in evolutionary terms similar to those of Charles Darwin. | Paragraph H;
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| 34 | E | Since much knowledge of Vikings comes from literature composed up to 300 years after the events they chronicle, some Danish historians called these sources ‘mere legends’. | Paragraph I;
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| 35 | A | By contrast, today’s children can visit museums where Vikings are celebrated as merchants, pastoralists, and artists with a unique worldview as well as conquerors. | Paragraph F;
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| 36 | G | However, during the Soviet period, there was an emphasis on the Slavic origins of most Russians. | Paragraph K;
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| 37 | B | The Norwegian historian, Gustav Storm, was adamant it was his forebears and not the Swedes’ or Danes’ who had colonised Iceland, Greenland, and Vinland, in what is now Canada. | Paragraph G;
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| 38 | C | Sweden was keen to boost its image with rich archaeological finds to show the glory of its Viking past. | Paragraph G;
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| 39 | H | western Russian DNA is consistent with that of the inhabitants of a region north of Stockholm in Sweden. | Paragraph L;
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| 40 | D | In the last century, Vikings have been perceived in numerous different ways
& What are some other interpretations of Vikings? |
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