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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Kingdom of God.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what year were Wihtred's laws issued?
(a) 695.
(b) 1210.
(c) 875.
(d) 524.

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

3. Who is the first century Roman historian that the author claims is the best source for "information about Germanic tribes"?
(a) Aristotle.
(b) Tacitus.
(c) Herodotus.
(d) Plato.

4. In "The Finnesburh Fragment," what does the first line say is "not burning"?
(a) The sky.
(b) The spires.
(c) The pits of Hell.
(d) The gables.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of Hrothgar's mead-hall?

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

3. Whose arrival signaled the Golden Age of Northumbria?

4. According to Byrhthelm in "The Battle of Maldon," who alone can say who would control the battle field?

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

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