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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Epic: Beowulf.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the Introduction to the Law section say was gagged upon when fed to Ecclesiastics if they were found guilty?
(a) Consecrated wine.
(b) Bread and cheese.
(c) Mashed grains.
(d) Saturated wheat.

2. Who is the first century Roman historian that the author claims is the best source for "information about Germanic tribes"?
(a) Plato.
(b) Herodotus.
(c) Tacitus.
(d) Aristotle.

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

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

5. What two words were used in a trial by ordeal to define the seriousness of the crime?
(a) "MIsendon" and "Candicet".
(b) "Thricen" and "Shrine".
(c) "Misson" and "Molten".
(d) "Single" and "Threefold".

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose translation of "The Wanderer" is best known?

2. What is a compressed narrative poem?

3. In "The Finnesburh Fragment," what does the first line say is "not burning"?

4. Who does the author of "The Battle of Brunanburh" state is a "man of discretion"?

5. What is the name of the person that "was a crucial member of a tribe or a society" and existed as "a living memory"?

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