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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What poem is described by the author as "an antiquarian's delight"?
(a) Wulf.
(b) The Wanderer.
(c) Beowulf.
(d) The Ruin.

2. What is the name of the monastery spoken of in "Caedmon's Vision"?
(a) Dominion.
(b) Frentage.
(c) Mantre.
(d) Whitby.

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

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

5. What does "he wolde fandian" mean?
(a) He traveled the world.
(b) He wanted to search.
(c) He fashioned the world.
(d) He would vanquish.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the governing assemblies from the Anglo-Saxon period?

2. What is the name of "one of the most popular philosophical books of the Middle Ages"? (According to the author of the introduction.)

3. Who was the patron saint of Northumbria?

4. In "A Colloquy" what profession does the pupil have?

5. 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"?

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