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

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

2. According to "The Wife's Lament," what "goes side by side with those who suffer longing for a loved one"?
(a) Solitude.
(b) Grief.
(c) Saddness.
(d) Anger.

3. Who does the author of "The Battle of Brunanburh" state is a "man of discretion"?
(a) Grebes.
(b) Byrnth.
(c) Constantine.
(d) Stolkharth.

4. In "The Ruin," what does the author name as "wondrous" and "wrecked by fate"?
(a) A whale-path.
(b) An affair.
(c) A stone-wall.
(d) A love lost.

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

Short Answer 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"?

2. According to the author of the introduction to The Elegies, what do many Anglo-Saxon poems fail to have a "sufficient frame" of?

3. What adjective does the poet of "The Seafarer" use to describe the song that he sings of himself?

4. What poem is described by the author as "an antiquarian's delight"?

5. What is the name of the hero in "The Finnesburh Fragment"?

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