The Anglo-Saxon World: An Anthology Quiz | One Week Quiz A

Kevin Crossley-Holland
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The Anglo-Saxon World: An Anthology Quiz | One Week Quiz A

Kevin Crossley-Holland
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 116 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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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 "The Wife's Lament," where is the wife forced to live?
(a) In an earth-cave.
(b) In a well.
(c) In a barn.
(d) In a foreign castle.

2. Who raided Lindisfarne on June 8, 793?
(a) Celtic monks.
(b) Pagan heathens.
(c) Christians.
(d) Vikings.

3. In "The Ruin," what does the author name as "wondrous" and "wrecked by fate"?
(a) An affair.
(b) A stone-wall.
(c) A whale-path.
(d) A love lost.

4. What does "The Seafarer" learn that ships are homes of?
(a) Solitude.
(b) Hope.
(c) Saddness.
(d) Honesty.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the author of "The Wanderer" searching for in his elegy?

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

3. According to the author of the introduction to The Elegies, what do many Anglo-Saxon poems fail to have a "sufficient frame" of?

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

5. In what year did Pope Gregory pen a letter to Candidus?

(see the answer key)

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