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Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who, living between the years 955-1020, does the author of the introduction to Example and Exhortation state was the "most significant figure in this age of religious and educational reform"?
(a) Bede.
(b) Aristotle.
(c) Aelfric.
(d) Colombus.

2. According to the introduction to the Heroic Poems section, what do heroic poems link our Anglo-Saxon ancestors to?
(a) European origins.
(b) Dutch origins.
(c) French origins.
(d) Geatland origins.

3. Who made the weapon with which Beowulf beheads Grendel's mother?
(a) Geats.
(b) Danes.
(c) Elves.
(d) Giants.

4. Where does the wanderer's "best source of comfort lie"?
(a) In hope for land.
(b) In his lord.
(c) In himself.
(d) In his sails.

5. The riddles are described as being both "witty and obscene," and they are given this name?
(a) Alliterations.
(b) Ceasuras.
(c) Double entendres.
(d) Allegories.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Deor", what did Weland "well know about"?

2. What was the first English secular biography?

3. What is the alternate name that the introduction to "I Saw a Strange Creature..." gives to kennings?

4. What poem is described by the author as "an antiquarian's delight"?

5. In what year did Pope Gregory pen a letter to Candidus?

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