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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Laws, and The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle.

Multiple Choice 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"?
(a) The clergy.
(b) The scop.
(c) The jester.
(d) The knave.

2. What does the author in the introduction to the Heroic Poems section state is the "finest expression of the code" (the Germanic Heroic code)?
(a) "The Finnesburh Fragment."
(b) "Beowulf."
(c) "The Battle of Maldon."
(d) "Deor."

3. What two words were used in a trial by ordeal to define the seriousness of the crime?
(a) "Single" and "Threefold".
(b) "Thricen" and "Shrine".
(c) "Misson" and "Molten".
(d) "MIsendon" and "Candicet".

4. Who was "Letter to the English" meant to act as moral support for?
(a) Earl Thorkel.
(b) Prince Kent.
(c) Duke Sententon.
(d) King Alfred.

5. In "Deor", what did Weland "well know about"?
(a) Honor.
(b) Hommage.
(c) Victory.
(d) Exile.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Wihtred's law 9, how much money is a servant to pay if he is found guilty of working between Saturday evening and Sunday evening?

2. How many shillings will it cost someone if they were to "breach the Church's protection"?

3. During what century did the first Anglo-Saxon settlers migrate to England?

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

5. How many lines is "The Battle of Maldon" missing at the beginning?

(see the answer key)

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