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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Sermon, and Destiny.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does the author of "The Battle of Brunanburh" state is a "man of discretion"?
(a) Grebes.
(b) Byrnth.
(c) Constantine.
(d) Stolkharth.

2. What was the first English secular biography?
(a) "Life of King Alfred."
(b) "The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle."
(c) "Charlemagne."
(d) "Common Sense."

3. Who was the patron saint of Northumbria?
(a) Renche.
(b) Cuthbert.
(c) Bede.
(d) Columbia.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to "The History of the English Church and People," how does Bede describe the complexions of the slaves seen by Gregory in the Roman marketplace?

2. Where does the author state that the emotional center of "Deor" lies (which lines)?

3. How many men, in a trial by ordeal, are required to test the heat of the water?

4. What was the name of the monk in the monastery at Ramsey who complied a handbook on computus?

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

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