The Anglo-Saxon World: An Anthology Test | Final Test - Easy

Kevin Crossley-Holland
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The Anglo-Saxon World: An Anthology Test | Final Test - Easy

Kevin Crossley-Holland
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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the "metrical irregularity" of the charms point to?
(a) A Celtic tradition.
(b) A Norse tradition.
(c) A written tradition.
(d) An oral tradition.

2. In the stanza that begins "I saw a creature," what sticks out behind the creature?
(a) His tail.
(b) His foot.
(c) A row of spines.
(d) His stomach.

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

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

5. At dawn what is the first thing that the ploughman does in the morning?
(a) Milk the goats.
(b) Start a fire.
(c) Drive oxen to field.
(d) Feed the cattle.

6. What was the first use of the runic alphabet?
(a) Education of children.
(b) Magic.
(c) Rituals.
(d) Education of slaves.

7. According to Aelfric, who was "cruelly martyred" in 870 after he refused to give the Danes "wergild"?
(a) St. Roslin.
(b) St. Matthew.
(c) St. Edmund.
(d) St. Peter.

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

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

10. What was the name of the monk in the monastery at Ramsey who complied a handbook on computus?
(a) Byrhtferth.
(b) Detriech.
(c) Synthegrth.
(d) Stephen.

11. Who does St. Gregory thank for having teachers "among us now"?
(a) Waerferth.
(b) Greeks.
(c) God.
(d) Bede.

12. In what year did Gregory send Augustine to Kent?
(a) 597.
(b) 658.
(c) 781.
(d) 449.

13. In what year did Alcuin of York leave England at the request of Charlemagne?
(a) 677.
(b) 782.
(c) 598.
(d) 741.

14. How many stress patterns does all Old English poetry contain?
(a) 4.
(b) 6.
(c) 12.
(d) 7.

15. Where was Boniface leading a mission when he was killed?
(a) Frisia.
(b) Lul.
(c) Northumbrian.
(d) Fulrad.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many poems are included in the canon of the "Exeter Book"?

2. What is embedded in the hilt of the sword of Constantine the Great?

3. According to "The History of the English Church and People," how does Bede describe the complexions of the slaves seen by Gregory in the Roman marketplace?

4. In what century did Old English become a "vehicle capable of expressing scientific thought"?

5. One of the riddles in the "Exeter Book" was used "to show the way in which the runic alphabet was a kind of"?

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