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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Charters, Tracts, and Wills.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was the king, whose will is the earliest surviving of Anglo-Saxon history, preoccupied with threat by?
(a) Danes.
(b) Geats.
(c) Swedes.
(d) Northumberlands.

2. Who does St. Gregory thank for having teachers "among us now"?
(a) Waerferth.
(b) Bede.
(c) Greeks.
(d) God.

3. Who translated Bede's "History of the English Church and People"?
(a) Alfred.
(b) Sintertra.
(c) Pound.
(d) Columbia.

4. On Christmas Day under the rule of Augustine ten thousand people were baptized through what method?
(a) Complete immersion.
(b) Baptism by fire.
(c) Christening.
(d) Baptism of repentance.

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

Short Answer 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"?

2. According to "The History of the English Church and People," how does Bede describe the complexions of the slaves seen by Gregory in the Roman marketplace?

3. Who is Grendel a descendant of?

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

5. What does Beowulf use to fight Grendel?

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