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Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Who is jealous of Beowulf?
(a) Hrunting.
(b) Unferth.
(c) Wiglaf.
(d) Hrothgar.

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

5. Where is Beowulf from?
(a) Britland.
(b) Geatland.
(c) Scotland.
(d) England.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year were Wihtred's laws issued?

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

3. Where was Boniface leading a mission when he was killed?

4. According to the introduction to "Greetings in Christ," who possessed "the sword of Constantine the Great"?

5. According to Aelfric, who was "cruelly martyred" in 870 after he refused to give the Danes "wergild"?

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