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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 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."

2. What is a compressed narrative poem?
(a) A kenning.
(b) A prose.
(c) A ceasura.
(d) A lay.

3. Why, according to Wihtred's law number 4, will foreigners be forced to "depart from the land with their goods and their sins"?
(a) If they "fail to recognize the king's laws."
(b) If they do not "rugularize their marriage."
(c) If they fail the rights of passage."
(d) If they "refuse to succumb to fate."

4. 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?
(a) Stoning.
(b) Imprisonment.
(c) Pressing.
(d) Flogging.

5. According to Byrhthelm in "The Battle of Maldon," who alone can say who would control the battle field?
(a) He, himself.
(b) The queen.
(c) God.
(d) The peasantry.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to number 19, in "Letter to the People of England," how many men are to go to church and "make supplication"?

2. Who does the author in the introduction to the Laws section say, "most of us" need to turn to in order to "establish the exact wording of a law"?

3. What does the Introduction to the Law section say was gagged upon when fed to Ecclesiastics if they were found guilty?

4. In "Germania," what is stated as the reason a chief fights?

5. In "Deor", what did Weland "well know about"?

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