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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does the wanderer's "best source of comfort lie"?
(a) In hope for land.
(b) In himself.
(c) In his lord.
(d) In his sails.

2. 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 scop.
(b) The knave.
(c) The clergy.
(d) The jester.

3. Where is Hrothgar's kingdom?
(a) Daneland.
(b) Hwicca.
(c) Northumbria.
(d) East Saxon.

4. In a trial by ordeal, which rule speaks to the fine one would pay if found invalid and having broken the rules of the trial by ordeal?
(a) 1.
(b) 2.
(c) 4.
(d) 6.

5. In "Deor", what did Weland "well know about"?
(a) Exile.
(b) Victory.
(c) Honor.
(d) Hommage.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to number 19, in "Letter to the People of England," how many men are to go to church and "make supplication"?

2. According to the author, what did Anglo-Saxons fail to do for their poetry?

3. Where is Beowulf from?

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

5. What does "The Seafarer" learn that ships are homes of?

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