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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 said "What use is the abundance of books if there are none to read and understand them?"
(a) Alcuin of York.
(b) Bede.
(c) Columbia.
(d) Asser.

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

3. In what book are the "six so-called Elegies" found?
(a) Exeter.
(b) Chronicles of Wyrd.
(c) Byron's Canon.
(d) Cathedral Chronicles.

4. How many lines is "The Battle of Maldon" missing at the beginning?
(a) 25.
(b) 10.
(c) 100.
(d) 50.

5. In what year was Boniface born?
(a) 698.
(b) 702.
(c) 655.
(d) 675.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose will is the earliest surviving will of any Anglo-Saxon king?

2. Why does the author say that Alfred failed to put some laws into writing?

3. In what year was Bede born?

4. Who is the first century Roman historian that the author claims is the best source for "information about Germanic tribes"?

5. According to the introduction to the Heroic Poems section, what do heroic poems link our Anglo-Saxon ancestors to?

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