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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. 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 the rights of passage."
(b) If they do not "rugularize their marriage."
(c) If they "fail to recognize the king's laws."
(d) If they "refuse to succumb to fate."

2. 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) Pressing.
(b) Flogging.
(c) Stoning.
(d) Imprisonment.

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

4. Where does the author state that the emotional center of "Deor" lies (which lines)?
(a) The first four lines.
(b) The last eight.
(c) The first eight.
(d) The center stanza.

5. How many lines is "The Battle of Maldon" missing at the beginning?
(a) 25.
(b) 50.
(c) 100.
(d) 10.

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

3. 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?

4. In "The Battle of Maldon," who "over-confidently allowed the Danes to cross the causeway"?

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

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