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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. In what year did Gregory send Augustine to Kent?
(a) 781.
(b) 449.
(c) 597.
(d) 658.

2. What does Hrothgar promise Beowulf for killing Grendel?
(a) Kinghood.
(b) Treasure.
(c) A wife.
(d) Knighthood.

3. In "Greetings in Christ," what does the author of the section say are susceptible to the "wear and tear of centuries"?
(a) Letters.
(b) Poems.
(c) Sermens.
(d) Christian thought.

4. In what year did Pope Gregory pen a letter to Candidus?
(a) 410.
(b) 595.
(c) 603.
(d) 557.

5. Who was the godson of Aethelstan?
(a) Alan the Great.
(b) Constantine.
(c) Alucin.
(d) Mercia.

Short Answer 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"?

2. In the stanza beginning "I'm a strange creature," what does the strange creature state it satisfies?

3. Who is jealous of Beowulf?

4. Who was "Letter to the English" meant to act as moral support for?

5. At the time of the meeting between the teacher and the hunter, why had the hunter not hunted "today"?

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