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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does the author in the introduction to the Laws section say, "most of us" need to turn to in order to "establish the exact wording of a law"?
(a) A solicitor.
(b) A law writer.
(c) A barrister.
(d) A priest.

2. 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) Stoning.
(b) Flogging.
(c) Pressing.
(d) Imprisonment.

3. According to "The Wife's Lament," what "goes side by side with those who suffer longing for a loved one"?
(a) Saddness.
(b) Grief.
(c) Solitude.
(d) Anger.

4. In a trial by ordeal, which rule speaks to the fine one would pay if found invalid and having broken the rules of the trial by ordeal?
(a) 1.
(b) 4.
(c) 6.
(d) 2.

5. In what year did Pope Gregory invite Augustine to convert the English to Christianity?
(a) 342.
(b) 478.
(c) 597.
(d) 238.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who translated Bede's "History of the English Church and People"?

2. Whose arrival signaled the Golden Age of Northumbria?

3. How many men, in a trial by ordeal, are required to test the heat of the water?

4. Why does the author say that Alfred failed to put some laws into writing?

5. At dawn what is the first thing that the ploughman does in the morning?

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