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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Charms and Remedies, and Allegory.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Grendel unable to approach in Heorot?
(a) The queen.
(b) The banner.
(c) Beowulf.
(d) The throne.

2. Who, living between the years 955-1020, does the author of the introduction to Example and Exhortation state was the "most significant figure in this age of religious and educational reform"?
(a) Aelfric.
(b) Aristotle.
(c) Bede.
(d) Colombus.

3. What was the name of the monk in the monastery at Ramsey who complied a handbook on computus?
(a) Stephen.
(b) Detriech.
(c) Byrhtferth.
(d) Synthegrth.

4. Who is the first of the "Three Charms" against?
(a) A dog.
(b) A snake.
(c) A wen.
(d) A tree.

5. In what year was the "Exeter Book" bequeathed to the Cathedral Library?
(a) 998.
(b) 758.
(c) 1072.
(d) 874.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the leading astronomer during the period when Old English became a "vehicle capable of expressing scientific thought"?

2. 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?

3. What did the runic alphabet come to be used for later (after its first use)?

4. What does the first object in "Thirty-One Riddles" plunge through?

5. Where was Boniface leading a mission when he was killed?

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