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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Example and Exhortation.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what year was Bede born?
(a) 673.
(b) 682.
(c) 668.
(d) 609.

2. In what year was Cuthbert's coffin opened in Durham Cathedral?
(a) 1010.
(b) 1005.
(c) 985.
(d) 1104.

3. What is the name of the governing assemblies from the Anglo-Saxon period?
(a) Soothslayers.
(b) Wyrds.
(c) Cleric-bards,
(d) Folk-moots.

4. At dawn what is the first thing that the ploughman does in the morning?
(a) Drive oxen to field.
(b) Start a fire.
(c) Feed the cattle.
(d) Milk the goats.

5. Besides "The Wife's Lament," what is the only other Anglo-Saxon poem written by a woman?
(a) Wulf.
(b) The Promise
(c) Brazen.
(d) The Marriage-Oath.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did Pope Gregory invite Augustine to convert the English to Christianity?

2. According to The Laws of Wihtred, who is free from taxation?

3. At the time of the meeting between the teacher and the hunter, why had the hunter not hunted "today"?

4. What is the name of "one of the most popular philosophical books of the Middle Ages"? (According to the author of the introduction.)

5. Who translated Bede's "History of the English Church and People"?

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