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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. According to the introduction of Example and Exhortation, what language did King Alfred learn to translate texts into the "vernacular" of?

3. What physical feature did Gregory state made the name of the "Angles" appropriate?

4. In what year was the "terrible winter" in "The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle"?

5. At the time of the meeting between the teacher and the hunter, why had the hunter not hunted "today"?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why do the pupils in "A Colloquy" ask to be taught Latin?

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

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

5. In what ways was the "Exeter Book" used prior to the book's importance being known?

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

7. What are a few of the "problems" that "Bald's Leechbook" addresses?

8. 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"?

9. Describe the three sections of "Bald's Leechbook".

10. In the beginning, when Latin was still a widely used language, what was English primarily used for?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Many of the Anglos were by trade seafarers. What did a typical seafarer face during their lives? What were the highlights of being a seafarer? What were the pitfalls of being a seafarer?

Essay Topic 2

What are the multiple facets that the "Exeter Book" performed? Why was it important? What did it address? What did it provide to the Anglo-Saxon society?

Essay Topic 3

Why do you think that riddles where important during the Anglo-Saxon period? What purpose did they serve? Why did they focus on the themes they did?

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