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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 does the word "wergild" mean?
(a) The succession of kinship.
(b) A man's value.
(c) The naming of a bard.
(d) A families land.

2. In "The Wanderer," from whom does the wanderer plead for pity and mercy?
(a) The sea.
(b) His lord.
(c) His wife.
(d) God.

3. What is the answer to the "best known riddle in this genre" (Anglo-Saxon literature)?
(a) God.
(b) Dog.
(c) Man.
(d) Woman.

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

5. What is Grendel unable to approach in Heorot?
(a) The throne.
(b) Beowulf.
(c) The queen.
(d) The banner.

Short Answer Questions

1. What "paths" must the wanderer follow given "fate is inflexible"?

2. One of the riddles in the "Exeter Book" was used "to show the way in which the runic alphabet was a kind of"?

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

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

5. According to The Laws of Wihtred, who is free from taxation?

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