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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 is the traditional kenning for a wife?
(a) Home-taker.
(b) Child-bearer.
(c) Peace-weaver.
(d) Care-granter.

2. How many poems are included in the canon of the "Exeter Book"?
(a) 52.
(b) 114.
(c) 96.
(d) 78.

3. What is the name of the woman who "begged men from Cwaespatric"?
(a) Slavariac.
(b) Fromberge.
(c) Geatfleda.
(d) Norschairt.

4. According to number 19, in "Letter to the People of England," how many men are to go to church and "make supplication"?
(a) Only the lords.
(b) All priests.
(c) Only the bards.
(d) All men.

5. How many men does Grendel murder on his first attack on the mead-hall?
(a) 15.
(b) 30.
(c) 1.
(d) 50.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the High Priest who "replied without hesitation in "King Edwin's Council"?

2. Where, according to the excerpt from "The History of the English Church and People," had the slaves that Gregory saw hail from?

3. What was the name of the first book that King Alfred translated into the vernacular?

4. What does the first object in "Thirty-One Riddles" plunge through?

5. Who was the godson of Aethelstan?

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