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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the woman who "begged men from Cwaespatric"?
(a) Fromberge.
(b) Geatfleda.
(c) Slavariac.
(d) Norschairt.

2. In what century was "An Estate Memorandum" written?
(a) 2nd or 3rd.
(b) 8th or 9th.
(c) 5th or 6th.
(d) 10th or 11th.

3. What is the name of the book that the author claims to be the earliest and most substantial work of scientific prose?
(a) "Starcraft of Early England."
(b) "Bald's Leechbook."
(c) "Leechdoms."
(d) Bede's "Times and Tides."

4. In what year did Pope Gregory pen a letter to Candidus?
(a) 595.
(b) 557.
(c) 410.
(d) 603.

5. What was the name of the most powerful English king "prior to Alfred"?
(a) Offa.
(b) Stewenard.
(c) Leunstead.
(d) Frestern.

6. What is the subject and tone of Anglo-Saxon riddles?
(a) Strictly upbeat.
(b) Never emotional.
(c) Enormously varied.
(d) Commonly sad.

7. Where does the introduction of "I Saw a Strange Creature..." say riddles similar to the semi-metaphorical riddles of the "Exeter Book" occur?
(a) The Bible.
(b) Beowulf.
(c) Chaucer's texts.
(d) Writings of the Pearl Poet.

8. Who was the king, whose will is the earliest surviving of Anglo-Saxon history, preoccupied with threat by?
(a) Swedes.
(b) Geats.
(c) Northumberlands.
(d) Danes.

9. What position was Candidus set to take up in Gaul?
(a) Senior churchman.
(b) Deacon.
(c) Cardinal.
(d) Senior monk.

10. What is embedded in the hilt of the sword of Constantine the Great?
(a) A nail from the Cross.
(b) A parable from the Book of Mathew.
(c) A Widow's mite.
(d) A marking denoting the Annunciation.

11. In the "Grant of Land at Crediton," the king of what area gave land to be used for a monastary?
(a) West Saxons.
(b) South Danes.
(c) Ireland.
(d) Northumberland.

12. How many poems are included in the canon of the "Exeter Book"?
(a) 96.
(b) 52.
(c) 114.
(d) 78.

13. How many charters and grants survive from the Anglo-Saxon period?
(a) More than 1,600.
(b) 5.
(c) 200.
(d) 1589.

14. In what year was Boniface born?
(a) 655.
(b) 702.
(c) 675.
(d) 698.

15. In King Alfred's preface to "St. Gregory's 'Pastoral Care,' who does he "bids greet"?
(a) Rominast.
(b) Humber.
(c) Bishop Waerferth.
(d) Bede.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the first object in "Thirty-One Riddles" plunge through?

2. Where did the act of freeing a slave take place to "prevent subsequent violation"?

3. What do some believe the "Exeter Book" has been used as in the past?

4. What sickness does "Bald's Leechbook" address in the opening line?

5. Under what circumstances could a wife obtain all of the husband's suit?

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