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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Elegies, and Exploration.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the Introduction to the Law section say was gagged upon when fed to Ecclesiastics if they were found guilty?
(a) Saturated wheat.
(b) Consecrated wine.
(c) Bread and cheese.
(d) Mashed grains.

2. What poem is described by the author as "an antiquarian's delight"?
(a) The Wanderer.
(b) The Ruin.
(c) Beowulf.
(d) Wulf.

3. In how many "key relationships" did the heart of the Anglo-Saxon society lay?
(a) 4.
(b) 3.
(c) 2.
(d) 1.

4. What is the author of "The Wanderer" searching for in his elegy?
(a) A new wife.
(b) A new ship.
(c) A new love.
(d) A new lord.

5. 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) "Deor."
(b) "The Battle of Maldon."
(c) "The Finnesburh Fragment."
(d) "Beowulf."

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In "The Finnesburh Fragment," what does the first line say is "not burning"?

3. What is the name of the person that "was a crucial member of a tribe or a society" and existed as "a living memory"?

4. Besides "The Wife's Lament," what is the only other Anglo-Saxon poem written by a woman?

5. In a trial by ordeal, which rule speaks to the fine one would pay if found invalid and having broken the rules of the trial by ordeal?

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