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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 "The Seafarer" learn that ships are homes of?
(a) Hope.
(b) Honesty.
(c) Solitude.
(d) Saddness.

2. How many men, in a trial by ordeal, are required to test the heat of the water?
(a) 2 from "each side".
(b) 3 from "each side".
(c) 1 from "each side".
(d) 4 from "each side".

3. Who translated Bede's "History of the English Church and People"?
(a) Sintertra.
(b) Pound.
(c) Columbia.
(d) Alfred.

4. What physical feature did Gregory state made the name of the "Angles" appropriate?
(a) Their hair.
(b) Their faces.
(c) Their hands.
(d) Their bowed heads.

5. In what year did Pope Gregory invite Augustine to convert the English to Christianity?
(a) 238.
(b) 597.
(c) 478.
(d) 342.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. As the author states in the introduction to "I Saw a Creature...," what do some riddles reflect?

3. What is the concern of all of Wulfstan's surviving sermons?

4. In "The Ruin," what does the author name as "wondrous" and "wrecked by fate"?

5. Wihtred was king over what people?

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