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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many times a day does the shepard milk his sheep?
(a) 2 times.
(b) 3 times.
(c) Once.
(d) Never- he doesn't own sheep.

2. What was the name of the man who witnessed Bede's death?
(a) Stevan.
(b) Timothy.
(c) Alfred.
(d) Wilbert.

3. What is Grendel unable to approach in Heorot?
(a) The queen.
(b) The throne.
(c) The banner.
(d) Beowulf.

4. How many men does Grendel murder just before his fight with Beowulf?
(a) 15.
(b) 1.
(c) 10.
(d) 5.

5. Why, according to Wihtred's law number 4, will foreigners be forced to "depart from the land with their goods and their sins"?
(a) If they "fail to recognize the king's laws."
(b) If they fail the rights of passage."
(c) If they do not "rugularize their marriage."
(d) If they "refuse to succumb to fate."

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the man that Beowulf challenges to a swimming race?

2. What century was it when pagan Germanic tribesman "swarmed" into England?

3. At dawn what is the first thing that the ploughman does in the morning?

4. Who was "Letter to the English" meant to act as moral support for?

5. In what year were Wihtred's laws issued?

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