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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Charms and Remedies, and Allegory.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where is Beowulf from?
(a) Scotland.
(b) England.
(c) Britland.
(d) Geatland.

2. What is the name of the man that Beowulf challenges to a swimming race?
(a) Hrunting.
(b) Brecca.
(c) Unferth.
(d) Wiglaf.

3. In what year were Wihtred's laws issued?
(a) 1210.
(b) 695.
(c) 875.
(d) 524.

4. According to the introduction to the Heroic Poems section, what do heroic poems link our Anglo-Saxon ancestors to?
(a) Dutch origins.
(b) European origins.
(c) French origins.
(d) Geatland origins.

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 "refuse to succumb to fate."
(b) If they fail the rights of passage."
(c) If they "fail to recognize the king's laws."
(d) If they do not "rugularize their marriage."

Short Answer Questions

1. In the stanza beginning "I'm a strange creature," what does the strange creature state it satisfies?

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

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

4. In what year did Gregory send Augustine to Kent?

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

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