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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 said "What use is the abundance of books if there are none to read and understand them?"
(a) Asser.
(b) Bede.
(c) Alcuin of York.
(d) Columbia.

2. Who wrote "Letter to the English"?
(a) Canute.
(b) Kent.
(c) Alfred.
(d) Wulfstan.

3. How many men does Grendel murder on his first attack on the mead-hall?
(a) 1.
(b) 15.
(c) 50.
(d) 30.

4. What adjective does the poet of "The Seafarer" use to describe the song that he sings of himself?
(a) Angry.
(b) Dorment.
(c) Sad.
(d) True.

5. How many times a day does the shepard milk his sheep?
(a) 3 times.
(b) Never- he doesn't own sheep.
(c) 2 times.
(d) Once.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the first English secular biography?

2. Who was the patron saint of Northumbria?

3. What was the name of the first book that King Alfred translated into the vernacular?

4. In "The Ruin," what does the author name as "wondrous" and "wrecked by fate"?

5. In what year was Bede born?

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