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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Charters, Tracts, and Wills.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In what book are the "six so-called Elegies" found?
(a) Cathedral Chronicles.
(b) Chronicles of Wyrd.
(c) Byron's Canon.
(d) Exeter.

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

4. Under what circumstances could a wife obtain all of the husband's suit?
(a) If she outlives him.
(b) If she outlives him, and they have a child.
(c) If they divorce, and they have a child.
(d) If she found him guilty of lechery.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What adjective does the poet of "The Seafarer" use to describe the song that he sings of himself?

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

3. What position was Candidus set to take up in Gaul?

4. According to "The Wife's Lament," what "goes side by side with those who suffer longing for a loved one"?

5. In late Anglo-Saxon England, what were women at liberty to accept or reject?

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