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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. Who said "What use is the abundance of books if there are none to read and understand them?"
(a) Columbia.
(b) Asser.
(c) Bede.
(d) Alcuin of York.

2. According to "The Wife's Lament," what "goes side by side with those who suffer longing for a loved one"?
(a) Anger.
(b) Solitude.
(c) Grief.
(d) Saddness.

3. In the "Grant of Land at Crediton," the king of what area gave land to be used for a monastary?
(a) Northumberland.
(b) West Saxons.
(c) South Danes.
(d) Ireland.

4. Whose power does the opening line of "For a Swarm of Bees" recognize?
(a) God's.
(b) Earth's.
(c) Nature's.
(d) Man's

5. What is the name of the island that Cuthbert died on?
(a) Great Farne.
(b) Geatland Isle.
(c) Viestiern.
(d) Frumberia.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to The Laws of Wihtred, who is free from taxation?

2. What is the name of "one of the most popular philosophical books of the Middle Ages"? (According to the author of the introduction.)

3. What does the author in the introduction to the Heroic Poems section state is the "finest expression of the code" (the Germanic Heroic code)?

4. What adjective does the poet of "The Seafarer" use to describe the song that he sings of himself?

5. Why does the author say that Alfred failed to put some laws into writing?

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