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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 does the "metrical irregularity" of the charms point to?
(a) A Norse tradition.
(b) A written tradition.
(c) A Celtic tradition.
(d) An oral tradition.

2. In late Anglo-Saxon England, what were women at liberty to accept or reject?
(a) Marriage suitors.
(b) Exile based upon family err.
(c) Financial proposals.
(d) Their children.

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

4. Who is named in the opening line of "A Grant of Land at Crediton"?
(a) Columbia.
(b) God.
(c) King Alfred.
(d) Bede.

5. What physical feature did Gregory state made the name of the "Angles" appropriate?
(a) Their faces.
(b) Their hands.
(c) Their bowed heads.
(d) Their hair.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. Who helped Beowulf fight the dragon?

3. What causes Beowulf's death?

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

5. According to the introduction to the Heroic Poems section, what do heroic poems link our Anglo-Saxon ancestors to?

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