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

2. What does "The Seafarer" learn that ships are homes of?
(a) Honesty.
(b) Solitude.
(c) Saddness.
(d) Hope.

3. In the "Grant of Land at Crediton," the king of what area gave land to be used for a monastary?
(a) Ireland.
(b) South Danes.
(c) Northumberland.
(d) West Saxons.

4. What poem is described by the author as "an antiquarian's delight"?
(a) The Wanderer.
(b) The Ruin.
(c) Wulf.
(d) Beowulf.

5. What physical feature did Gregory state made the name of the "Angles" appropriate?
(a) Their faces.
(b) Their hair.
(c) Their hands.
(d) Their bowed heads.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the author of "The Wanderer" searching for in his elegy?

2. Who raided Lindisfarne on June 8, 793?

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

4. What was the name of the most powerful English king "prior to Alfred"?

5. Who was the king, whose will is the earliest surviving of Anglo-Saxon history, preoccupied with threat by?

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