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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. What adjective does the poet of "The Seafarer" use to describe the song that he sings of himself?
(a) Angry.
(b) True.
(c) Dorment.
(d) Sad.

2. According to Byrhthelm in "The Battle of Maldon," who alone can say who would control the battle field?
(a) The queen.
(b) God.
(c) He, himself.
(d) The peasantry.

3. What was the name of the man who witnessed Bede's death?
(a) Alfred.
(b) Timothy.
(c) Wilbert.
(d) Stevan.

4. 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) Aristotle.
(b) Aelfric.
(c) Colombus.
(d) Bede.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How many poems are included in the canon of the "Exeter Book"?

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

4. What is the name of the island that Cuthbert died on?

5. Who was the king, whose will is the earliest surviving of Anglo-Saxon history, preoccupied with threat by?

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