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

2. In what book are the "six so-called Elegies" found?
(a) Byron's Canon.
(b) Exeter.
(c) Cathedral Chronicles.
(d) Chronicles of Wyrd.

3. At dawn what is the first thing that the ploughman does in the morning?
(a) Milk the goats.
(b) Start a fire.
(c) Feed the cattle.
(d) Drive oxen to field.

4. Whose translation of "The Wanderer" is best known?
(a) J.R.R. Tolkien's.
(b) Socrates'.
(c) Shakespeare's.
(d) Ezra Pound's.

5. What does Aelfric say is revealed when Christ performs miracles through saints?
(a) True faith.
(b) Power of God.
(c) Trust.
(d) Dedication.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year were Wihtred's laws issued?

2. What is the oldest surviving poem written in Old English?

3. What does Beowulf use to fight Grendel?

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

5. What is the name of the man that Beowulf challenges to a swimming race?

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