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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. How many of Boniface's letters survive today (at the printing of the text)?
(a) More than 200.
(b) Less than 100.
(c) 124.
(d) 5.

2. What was the name of the most powerful English king "prior to Alfred"?
(a) Frestern.
(b) Leunstead.
(c) Offa.
(d) Stewenard.

3. Whose will is the earliest surviving will of any Anglo-Saxon king?
(a) King Solomon.
(b) King Hreather.
(c) King Alfred.
(d) King Bede.

4. What "paths" must the wanderer follow given "fate is inflexible"?
(a) Hope.
(b) Exile.
(c) Fate.
(d) Wyrd.

5. Why, according to Wihtred's law number 4, will foreigners be forced to "depart from the land with their goods and their sins"?
(a) If they fail the rights of passage."
(b) If they "refuse to succumb to fate."
(c) If they do not "rugularize their marriage."
(d) If they "fail to recognize the king's laws."

Short Answer Questions

1. How many shillings will it cost someone if they were to "breach the Church's protection"?

2. In "The Wife's Lament," where is the wife forced to live?

3. What is Grendel unable to approach in Heorot?

4. What was the first use of the runic alphabet?

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

(see the answer key)

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