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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 did Gregory send Augustine to Kent?
(a) 449.
(b) 781.
(c) 658.
(d) 597.

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

3. Whose arrival signaled the Golden Age of Northumbria?
(a) Columbia.
(b) Celtic monks.
(c) Bede.
(d) Cuthbert.

4. According to the author, what did Anglo-Saxons fail to do for their poetry?
(a) Pay hommage to their past.
(b) Follow the "code".
(c) Title them.
(d) Honor God.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What adjective does the poet of "The Seafarer" use to describe the song that he sings of himself?

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

5. What does Beowulf use to fight Grendel?

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