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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Charters, Tracts, and Wills.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What century was it when pagan Germanic tribesman "swarmed" into England?
(a) 5th.
(b) 6th.
(c) 4th.
(d) 7th.

2. 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.

3. Who raided Lindisfarne on June 8, 793?
(a) Vikings.
(b) Pagan heathens.
(c) Celtic monks.
(d) Christians.

4. According to the introduction to "Greetings in Christ," who possessed "the sword of Constantine the Great"?
(a) St. Maurice.
(b) Aethelstan.
(c) Alan the Geat.
(d) Colombia.

5. The object in the second stanza of "Thirty-One Riddles" is what by nature?
(a) Wounded.
(b) Mean.
(c) Scared.
(d) Solitary.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does "he wolde fandian" mean?

2. Who was the prior of the monastery at Dol Brittany in 924?

3. Whose translation of "The Wanderer" is best known?

4. Where does the wanderer's "best source of comfort lie"?

5. What does the author in the introduction to the Heroic Poems section state is the "finest expression of the code" (the Germanic Heroic code)?

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