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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what year was Bede born?
(a) 673.
(b) 609.
(c) 668.
(d) 682.

2. What is the name of the governing assemblies from the Anglo-Saxon period?
(a) Cleric-bards,
(b) Wyrds.
(c) Folk-moots.
(d) Soothslayers.

3. How many people witnessed the opening of Cuthbert's coffin at Durham Cathedral?
(a) 13.
(b) 46.
(c) 25.
(d) 67.

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) Aelfric.
(b) Colombus.
(c) Bede.
(d) Aristotle.

5. Other than paying six shillings to his lord for riding "on his own business on that day," what can a servant choose as his punishment?
(a) Pressing.
(b) Stoning.
(c) Imprisonment.
(d) Flogging.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose translation of "The Wanderer" is best known?

2. In what year was Cuthbert's coffin opened in Durham Cathedral?

3. At what age (the boys' age) did Irish monks begin to train Anglo-Saxon boys as novices?

4. During what century were the Anglo-Saxons converted to Christianity?

5. Who does St. Gregory thank for having teachers "among us now"?

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