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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. 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?
(a) 100 sceattas.
(b) 80 sceattas.
(c) 25 sceattas.
(d) 50 sceattas.

2. 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 fail the rights of passage."
(c) If they "refuse to succumb to fate."
(d) If they do not "rugularize their marriage."

3. During what century did the first Anglo-Saxon settlers migrate to England?
(a) 6th.
(b) 7th.
(c) 8th.
(d) 5th.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the author state that the emotional center of "Deor" lies (which lines)?

2. In "The Battle of Maldon," who does Byrhtnoth order to dismount?

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. Who is the first century Roman historian that the author claims is the best source for "information about Germanic tribes"?

5. What is the name of the governing assemblies from the Anglo-Saxon period?

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