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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Charters, Tracts, and Wills.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what year did Alcuin of York leave England at the request of Charlemagne?
(a) 598.
(b) 741.
(c) 782.
(d) 677.

2. According to the author in the introduction what (other than "Beowulf") is the best -known Anglo-Saxon poem?
(a) "The Wanderer."
(b) "The Seafarer."
(c) "The Wife's Lament."
(d) "The Husband's Message."

3. Where was Boniface leading a mission when he was killed?
(a) Lul.
(b) Fulrad.
(c) Northumbrian.
(d) Frisia.

4. Who was the prior of the monastery at Dol Brittany in 924?
(a) Malbroad.
(b) Radbrod.
(c) Albert.
(d) Heather.

5. Where, according to the excerpt from "The History of the English Church and People," had the slaves that Gregory saw hail from?
(a) Britian.
(b) France.
(c) Northumberland.
(d) Germany.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who raided Lindisfarne on June 8, 793?

2. What "paths" must the wanderer follow given "fate is inflexible"?

3. Whose will is the earliest surviving will of any Anglo-Saxon king?

4. In what book are the "six so-called Elegies" found?

5. In how many "key relationships" did the heart of the Anglo-Saxon society lay?

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