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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the date of Bede's death?
(a) January 4, 704.
(b) May 25, 735.
(c) October 28, 739.
(d) December 25, 631.

2. What causes Beowulf's death?
(a) Dragon bite.
(b) He drowns in the ocean.
(c) Dragon fire.
(d) He falls from a cliff.

3. What does the word "wergild" mean?
(a) A man's value.
(b) The succession of kinship.
(c) The naming of a bard.
(d) A families land.

4. 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 scop.
(b) The jester.
(c) The clergy.
(d) The knave.

5. On Christmas Day under the rule of Augustine ten thousand people were baptized through what method?
(a) Complete immersion.
(b) Baptism of repentance.
(c) Christening.
(d) Baptism by fire.

6. Who translated Bede's "History of the English Church and People"?
(a) Sintertra.
(b) Alfred.
(c) Columbia.
(d) Pound.

7. What does Beowulf use to fight Grendel?
(a) A sword.
(b) A chain.
(c) A dagger.
(d) Nothing--no weapon.

8. How many men, in a trial by ordeal, are required to test the heat of the water?
(a) 4 from "each side".
(b) 1 from "each side".
(c) 2 from "each side".
(d) 3 from "each side".

9. What is the name of the monastery spoken of in "Caedmon's Vision"?
(a) Frentage.
(b) Mantre.
(c) Dominion.
(d) Whitby.

10. What is the name of the governing assemblies from the Anglo-Saxon period?
(a) Soothslayers.
(b) Folk-moots.
(c) Wyrds.
(d) Cleric-bards,

11. Who is jealous of Beowulf?
(a) Wiglaf.
(b) Unferth.
(c) Hrothgar.
(d) Hrunting.

12. Who wrote "Letter to the English"?
(a) Canute.
(b) Kent.
(c) Alfred.
(d) Wulfstan.

13. In "Germania," what is stated as the reason a chief fights?
(a) For family.
(b) For his king.
(c) For his father.
(d) For victory.

14. What does Hrothgar promise Beowulf for killing Grendel?
(a) A wife.
(b) Treasure.
(c) Knighthood.
(d) Kinghood.

15. In "The Husband's Message" how many times does the husband remind his wife of their oath of marriage?
(a) 10 times.
(b) 1 time.
(c) 3 times.
(d) 2 times.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "The Ruin," what does the author name as "wondrous" and "wrecked by fate"?

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

3. According to "The Wife's Lament," what "goes side by side with those who suffer longing for a loved one"?

4. Who is the first century Roman historian that the author claims is the best source for "information about Germanic tribes"?

5. What is the name of the High Priest who "replied without hesitation in "King Edwin's Council"?

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