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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Epic: Beowulf.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Wihtred's law 9, how much money is a servant to pay if he is found guilty of working between Saturday evening and Sunday evening?
(a) 50 sceattas.
(b) 25 sceattas.
(c) 100 sceattas.
(d) 80 sceattas.

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

3. Who made the weapon with which Beowulf beheads Grendel's mother?
(a) Danes.
(b) Giants.
(c) Elves.
(d) Geats.

4. In "The Finnesburh Fragment," what does the first line say is "not burning"?
(a) The gables.
(b) The pits of Hell.
(c) The spires.
(d) The sky.

5. Who does Hrothgar know from Beowulf's family?
(a) His mother.
(b) His uncle.
(c) His grandfather.
(d) His father.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Hrothgar promise Beowulf for killing Grendel?

2. When does the author believe that "Waldere" was written?

3. How was the history and legends of the Anglo-Saxons transmitted?

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

5. What is the name of Hrothgar's queen?

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