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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does "he wolde fandian" mean?
(a) He wanted to search.
(b) He fashioned the world.
(c) He traveled the world.
(d) He would vanquish.

2. In "The Wife's Lament," where is the wife forced to live?
(a) In an earth-cave.
(b) In a foreign castle.
(c) In a barn.
(d) In a well.

3. In what year did Pope Gregory pen a letter to Candidus?
(a) 557.
(b) 595.
(c) 410.
(d) 603.

4. In "The Finnesburh Fragment," what does the first line say is "not burning"?
(a) The pits of Hell.
(b) The gables.
(c) The spires.
(d) The sky.

5. How many stress patterns does all Old English poetry contain?
(a) 4.
(b) 12.
(c) 6.
(d) 7.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a compressed narrative poem?

2. At the time of the meeting between the teacher and the hunter, why had the hunter not hunted "today"?

3. What is the name of "one of the most popular philosophical books of the Middle Ages"? (According to the author of the introduction.)

4. In a trial by ordeal, which rule speaks to the fine one would pay if found invalid and having broken the rules of the trial by ordeal?

5. What does "eorpan motor" mean?

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