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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the alternate name that the introduction to "I Saw a Strange Creature..." gives to kennings?
(a) Mini-Riddles.
(b) Allegories.
(c) Hyperbolies.
(d) Personifications.

2. In the stanza beginning "I'm a strange creature," what does the strange creature state it satisfies?
(a) Cravings.
(b) Hunger.
(c) Thirst.
(d) Women.

3. Whose will is the earliest surviving will of any Anglo-Saxon king?
(a) King Bede.
(b) King Alfred.
(c) King Hreather.
(d) King Solomon.

4. During the conversation between the teacher and the fowler, what do readers find out the fowler "does" to birds "in many ways"?
(a) Damages them.
(b) Fools them.
(c) Entrances them.
(d) Entices them.

5. Who was the godson of Aethelstan?
(a) Alucin.
(b) Alan the Great.
(c) Constantine.
(d) Mercia.

6. In "A Colloquy" what does the pupil say he prefer to ignorance?
(a) To be flogged.
(b) To be exiled.
(c) To be mute.
(d) To be imprisoned.

7. What is the answer to the "best known riddle in this genre" (Anglo-Saxon literature)?
(a) Man.
(b) God.
(c) Woman.
(d) Dog.

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

9. As the author states in the introduction to "I Saw a Creature...," what do some riddles reflect?
(a) The turmoil of the times.
(b) Recollections of seafareres.
(c) Memories of times at their best.
(d) The normal grind of everyday life.

10. The riddles are described as being both "witty and obscene," and they are given this name?
(a) Ceasuras.
(b) Allegories.
(c) Alliterations.
(d) Double entendres.

11. What is "elf-shot"?
(a) Lumbago.
(b) Mange.
(c) Disambiguation.
(d) Dysentary

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

13. What was the first English secular biography?
(a) "Life of King Alfred."
(b) "The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle."
(c) "Charlemagne."
(d) "Common Sense."

14. Who is named in the opening line of "A Grant of Land at Crediton"?
(a) God.
(b) Columbia.
(c) Bede.
(d) King Alfred.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many times a day does the shepard milk his sheep?

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

3. Who is the first of the "Three Charms" against?

4. Who does St. Gregory thank for having teachers "among us now"?

5. In "A Colloquy" what profession does the pupil have?

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