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

2. In late Anglo-Saxon England, what were women at liberty to accept or reject?
(a) Financial proposals.
(b) Their children.
(c) Marriage suitors.
(d) Exile based upon family err.

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

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

5. According to the author in the introduction what (other than "Beowulf") is the best -known Anglo-Saxon poem?
(a) "The Wife's Lament."
(b) "The Husband's Message."
(c) "The Wanderer."
(d) "The Seafarer."

Short Answer Questions

1. How many charters and grants survive from the Anglo-Saxon period?

2. In what century was "An Estate Memorandum" written?

3. What object was given "store" as seen in "Beowulf" and named to a recipient in one king's will?

4. What kingdom does the author of the introduction to "Greetings in Christ" say the "boys" came from?

5. Where was Boniface leading a mission when he was killed?

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