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

2. In what year was Boniface born?
(a) 655.
(b) 702.
(c) 675.
(d) 698.

3. How many charters and grants survive from the Anglo-Saxon period?
(a) 1589.
(b) 5.
(c) More than 1,600.
(d) 200.

4. Who was the godson of Aethelstan?
(a) Mercia.
(b) Alan the Great.
(c) Alucin.
(d) Constantine.

5. In what century was "An Estate Memorandum" written?
(a) 10th or 11th.
(b) 2nd or 3rd.
(c) 5th or 6th.
(d) 8th or 9th.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the author in the introduction what (other than "Beowulf") is the best -known Anglo-Saxon poem?

2. What is the name of the woman who "begged men from Cwaespatric"?

3. What poem is described by the author as "an antiquarian's delight"?

4. What is the traditional kenning for a wife?

5. In "The Ruin," what does the author name as "wondrous" and "wrecked by fate"?

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