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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 Ruin," what does the author name as "wondrous" and "wrecked by fate"?
(a) A whale-path.
(b) An affair.
(c) A stone-wall.
(d) A love lost.

2. Where, according to the excerpt from "The History of the English Church and People," had the slaves that Gregory saw hail from?
(a) Germany.
(b) France.
(c) Britian.
(d) Northumberland.

3. What is embedded in the hilt of the sword of Constantine the Great?
(a) A marking denoting the Annunciation.
(b) A nail from the Cross.
(c) A Widow's mite.
(d) A parable from the Book of Mathew.

4. How many of Boniface's letters survive today (at the printing of the text)?
(a) More than 200.
(b) 5.
(c) Less than 100.
(d) 124.

5. What was the name of the most powerful English king "prior to Alfred"?
(a) Leunstead.
(b) Frestern.
(c) Offa.
(d) Stewenard.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the traditional kenning for a wife?

2. Who is named in the opening line of "A Grant of Land at Crediton"?

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

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

5. What poem is described by the author as "an antiquarian's delight"?

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