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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the runic alphabet come to be used for later (after its first use)?
(a) Identification.
(b) Pagan theology.
(c) Christian theology.
(d) Coding.

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

3. In what year was the "terrible winter" in "The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle"?
(a) 631.
(b) 847.
(c) 763.
(d) 296.

4. Who is the first of the "Three Charms" against?
(a) A wen.
(b) A dog.
(c) A snake.
(d) A tree.

5. Where did the act of freeing a slave take place to "prevent subsequent violation"?
(a) At an alter.
(b) In the town square.
(c) In a court.
(d) At the lord's home.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did Pope Gregory pen a letter to Candidus?

2. What does "he wolde fandian" mean?

3. In what year was the "Exeter Book" bequeathed to the Cathedral Library?

4. According to Aelfric, who was "cruelly martyred" in 870 after he refused to give the Danes "wergild"?

5. Who, living between the years 955-1020, does the author of the introduction to Example and Exhortation state was the "most significant figure in this age of religious and educational reform"?

Short Essay Questions

1. According to the author of the introduction to "I Saw A Creature...," what "relief" does the author state is found in Anglo-Saxon riddles?

2. Who wrote many of the letters that survived pre-Conquest England?

3. Why did Pope Gregory I write a letter to Candidus?

4. What does the ploughman say his day is spent doing?

5. In what ways was the runic alphabet used throughout Anglo-Saxon history?

6. What was the purpose of "An Estate Memorandum"?

7. Why does the author to the introduction of "I Saw a Strange Creature..." state that Anglo-Saxon riddles "satisfy us both as enigmas and as poems"?

8. What does the hunter receive in return for the beasts that he slays for his king?

9. How does the merchant justify his worth to the teacher?

10. What was the reason that many Anglos found it necessary to learn the English language?

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