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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Example and Exhortation.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many men, in a trial by ordeal, are required to test the heat of the water?
(a) 4 from "each side".
(b) 1 from "each side".
(c) 2 from "each side".
(d) 3 from "each side".

2. During what century were the Anglo-Saxons converted to Christianity?
(a) 10th.
(b) 5th.
(c) 8th.
(d) 7th.

3. In "A Colloquy" what profession does the pupil have?
(a) A monk.
(b) A carpenter.
(c) A ploughman.
(d) A hunter.

4. Who, living between the years 955-1020, does the author of the introduction to Example and Exhortation state was the "most significant figure in this age of religious and educational reform"?
(a) Colombus.
(b) Bede.
(c) Aristotle.
(d) Aelfric.

5. Who does Hrothgar know from Beowulf's family?
(a) His grandfather.
(b) His uncle.
(c) His father.
(d) His mother.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who made the weapon with which Beowulf beheads Grendel's mother?

2. During the conversation between the teacher and the fowler, what do readers find out the fowler "does" to birds "in many ways"?

3. How many men does Grendel murder just before his fight with Beowulf?

4. According to The Laws of Wihtred, who is free from taxation?

5. According to the author of the introduction to The Elegies, what do many Anglo-Saxon poems fail to have a "sufficient frame" of?

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