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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 a trial by ordeal, which rule speaks to the fine one would pay if found invalid and having broken the rules of the trial by ordeal?
(a) 2.
(b) 4.
(c) 6.
(d) 1.

2. What is the oldest surviving poem written in Old English?
(a) The Dream of the Rood.
(b) Wulf.
(c) Hymn.
(d) Beowulf.

3. What does Beowulf tear off of Grendel?
(a) His arm.
(b) His tail.
(c) His leg.
(d) His hand.

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

5. What is the author of "The Wanderer" searching for in his elegy?
(a) A new wife.
(b) A new lord.
(c) A new love.
(d) A new ship.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many shillings will it cost someone if they were to "breach the Church's protection"?

2. At what age (the boys' age) did Irish monks begin to train Anglo-Saxon boys as novices?

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. Who does Hrothgar know from Beowulf's family?

5. According to number 19, in "Letter to the People of England," how many men are to go to church and "make supplication"?

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