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

2. How many charters and grants survive from the Anglo-Saxon period?
(a) More than 1,600.
(b) 200.
(c) 1589.
(d) 5.

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

4. According to The Laws of Wihtred, who is free from taxation?
(a) Knights.
(b) The Bards.
(c) The Church.
(d) Scops.

5. In what year did Alcuin of York leave England at the request of Charlemagne?
(a) 741.
(b) 782.
(c) 598.
(d) 677.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Greetings in Christ," what does the author of the section say are susceptible to the "wear and tear of centuries"?

2. What adjective does the poet of "The Seafarer" use to describe the song that he sings of himself?

3. Who made the weapon with which Beowulf beheads Grendel's mother?

4. What is the name of the man that Beowulf challenges to a swimming race?

5. What is the name of "one of the most popular philosophical books of the Middle Ages"? (According to the author of the introduction.)

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