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

2. What does "The Seafarer" learn that ships are homes of?
(a) Hope.
(b) Saddness.
(c) Honesty.
(d) Solitude.

3. 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.

4. According to Wihtred's law 9, how much money is a servant to pay if he is found guilty of working between Saturday evening and Sunday evening?
(a) 100 sceattas.
(b) 80 sceattas.
(c) 50 sceattas.
(d) 25 sceattas.

5. In "The Battle of Maldon," who "over-confidently allowed the Danes to cross the causeway"?
(a) King of Wessex.
(b) King Alfred.
(c) Byrhtnoth.
(d) Bede.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year was Bede born?

2. What is the name of Hrothgar's queen?

3. What did the runic alphabet come to be used for later (after its first use)?

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

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

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