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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Epic: Beowulf.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the hero in "The Finnesburh Fragment"?
(a) Hengest.
(b) Hrothgar.
(c) Wyglaf.
(d) Beowulf.

2. According to the author, what did Anglo-Saxons fail to do for their poetry?
(a) Follow the "code".
(b) Pay hommage to their past.
(c) Honor God.
(d) Title them.

3. 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?
(a) 6.
(b) 1.
(c) 2.
(d) 4.

4. According to The Laws of Wihtred, who is free from taxation?
(a) The Church.
(b) Scops.
(c) The Bards.
(d) Knights.

5. Whose translation of "The Wanderer" is best known?
(a) Shakespeare's.
(b) Ezra Pound's.
(c) J.R.R. Tolkien's.
(d) Socrates'.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does "The Seafarer" learn that ships are homes of?

2. During what century did the first Anglo-Saxon settlers migrate to England?

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

4. According to "The Wife's Lament," what "goes side by side with those who suffer longing for a loved one"?

5. Who wrote "Letter to the English"?

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