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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What does Beowulf give to Wiglaf to signify Wiglaf's rise to king?
(a) A banner.
(b) A necklace.
(c) A sword.
(d) A goblet.
2. Who made the weapon with which Beowulf beheads Grendel's mother?
(a) Danes.
(b) Giants.
(c) Elves.
(d) Geats.
3. Where does the wanderer's "best source of comfort lie"?
(a) In his sails.
(b) In himself.
(c) In his lord.
(d) In hope for land.
4. Whose translation of "The Wanderer" is best known?
(a) Ezra Pound's.
(b) Socrates'.
(c) Shakespeare's.
(d) J.R.R. Tolkien's.
5. In "The Ruin," what does the author name as "wondrous" and "wrecked by fate"?
(a) A love lost.
(b) A stone-wall.
(c) A whale-path.
(d) An affair.
6. How many people witnessed the opening of Cuthbert's coffin at Durham Cathedral?
(a) 67.
(b) 25.
(c) 13.
(d) 46.
7. What does "The Seafarer" learn that ships are homes of?
(a) Saddness.
(b) Hope.
(c) Honesty.
(d) Solitude.
8. In what year did Pope Gregory invite Augustine to convert the English to Christianity?
(a) 238.
(b) 478.
(c) 597.
(d) 342.
9. What is the name of the person that "was a crucial member of a tribe or a society" and existed as "a living memory"?
(a) The jester.
(b) The knave.
(c) The clergy.
(d) The scop.
10. Why does the author say that Alfred failed to put some laws into writing?
(a) They were based upon critical thought.
(b) They only refered to those who were poor.
(c) They were based on common sense.
(d) They were only meant for those who could not read.
11. What century was it when pagan Germanic tribesman "swarmed" into England?
(a) 6th.
(b) 7th.
(c) 4th.
(d) 5th.
12. How many men, in a trial by ordeal, are required to test the heat of the water?
(a) 1 from "each side".
(b) 4 from "each side".
(c) 3 from "each side".
(d) 2 from "each side".
13. In what year were Wihtred's laws issued?
(a) 524.
(b) 875.
(c) 1210.
(d) 695.
14. Who translated Bede's "History of the English Church and People"?
(a) Pound.
(b) Sintertra.
(c) Columbia.
(d) Alfred.
15. In "The Battle of Maldon," who "over-confidently allowed the Danes to cross the causeway"?
(a) Byrhtnoth.
(b) Bede.
(c) King Alfred.
(d) King of Wessex.
Short Answer Questions
1. In how many "key relationships" did the heart of the Anglo-Saxon society lay?
2. What is the name of the hero in "The Finnesburh Fragment"?
3. During what century were the Anglo-Saxons converted to Christianity?
4. What was the name of the man who witnessed Bede's death?
5. Who was "Letter to the English" meant to act as moral support for?
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