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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the person that "was a crucial member of a tribe or a society" and existed as "a living memory"?
(a) The jester.
(b) The clergy.
(c) The scop.
(d) The knave.

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

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

4. Other than paying six shillings to his lord for riding "on his own business on that day," what can a servant choose as his punishment?
(a) Stoning.
(b) Flogging.
(c) Pressing.
(d) Imprisonment.

5. Why, according to Wihtred's law number 4, will foreigners be forced to "depart from the land with their goods and their sins"?
(a) If they fail the rights of passage."
(b) If they "fail to recognize the king's laws."
(c) If they do not "rugularize their marriage."
(d) If they "refuse to succumb to fate."

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the author in the introduction what (other than "Beowulf") is the best -known Anglo-Saxon poem?

2. What "paths" must the wanderer follow given "fate is inflexible"?

3. Who made the weapon with which Beowulf beheads Grendel's mother?

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

5. Where is Hrothgar's kingdom?

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