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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 book are the "six so-called Elegies" found?
(a) Cathedral Chronicles.
(b) Exeter.
(c) Chronicles of Wyrd.
(d) Byron's Canon.

2. During the conversation between the teacher and the fowler, what do readers find out the fowler "does" to birds "in many ways"?
(a) Entices them.
(b) Fools them.
(c) Entrances them.
(d) Damages them.

3. How many stress patterns does all Old English poetry contain?
(a) 7.
(b) 6.
(c) 4.
(d) 12.

4. Who "asked" the best known riddle of the Anglo-Saxon riddles?
(a) The Sphinx.
(b) The Griffin.
(c) The Nemean Lion.
(d) The Centaur.

5. What object was given "store" as seen in "Beowulf" and named to a recipient in one king's will?
(a) Goblet.
(b) Sword.
(c) Throne chair.
(d) Shield.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did Alcuin of York leave England at the request of Charlemagne?

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. Whose power does the opening line of "For a Swarm of Bees" recognize?

4. What is Grendel unable to approach in Heorot?

5. In "A Colloquy" what does the pupil say he prefer to ignorance?

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