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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who wrote "Letter to the English"?
(a) Alfred.
(b) Kent.
(c) Canute.
(d) Wulfstan.

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

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) "Misson" and "Molten".
(d) "Single" and "Threefold".

4. 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."

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose translation of "The Wanderer" is best known?

2. How was the history and legends of the Anglo-Saxons transmitted?

3. What is the author of "The Wanderer" searching for in his elegy?

4. Where does the wanderer's "best source of comfort lie"?

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

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