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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 "The Wanderer," from whom does the wanderer plead for pity and mercy?
(a) God.
(b) The sea.
(c) His wife.
(d) His lord.

2. Whose will is the earliest surviving will of any Anglo-Saxon king?
(a) King Bede.
(b) King Hreather.
(c) King Solomon.
(d) King Alfred.

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

4. 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 she outlives him.
(c) If they divorce, and they have a child.
(d) If she found him guilty of lechery.

5. According to the author of the introduction to The Elegies, what do many Anglo-Saxon poems fail to have a "sufficient frame" of?
(a) Truth.
(b) Reference.
(c) Time.
(d) Mood.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year was Boniface born?

2. Who was the godson of Aethelstan?

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

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

5. According to the author, what did Anglo-Saxons fail to do for their poetry?

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