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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. What is the date of Bede's death?
(a) May 25, 735.
(b) January 4, 704.
(c) December 25, 631.
(d) October 28, 739.

2. What is the name of Hrothgar's queen?
(a) Halga.
(b) Hygd.
(c) Ecgtheow.
(d) Wealhtheow.

3. What does Beowulf tear off of Grendel?
(a) His hand.
(b) His arm.
(c) His leg.
(d) His tail.

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

5. Besides "The Wife's Lament," what is the only other Anglo-Saxon poem written by a woman?
(a) Brazen.
(b) The Promise
(c) Wulf.
(d) The Marriage-Oath.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Germania," what is stated as the reason a chief fights?

2. What "paths" must the wanderer follow given "fate is inflexible"?

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. What is Grendel unable to approach in Heorot?

5. In "Cuthbert's Death and Disinterment," what type of home did Cuthbert seek out?

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