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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 Hrothgar promise Beowulf for killing Grendel?
(a) Treasure.
(b) A wife.
(c) Knighthood.
(d) Kinghood.

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

3. What causes Beowulf's death?
(a) He falls from a cliff.
(b) Dragon fire.
(c) He drowns in the ocean.
(d) Dragon bite.

4. In King Alfred's preface to "St. Gregory's 'Pastoral Care,' who does he "bids greet"?
(a) Rominast.
(b) Bishop Waerferth.
(c) Humber.
(d) Bede.

5. According to Aelfric, who was "cruelly martyred" in 870 after he refused to give the Danes "wergild"?
(a) St. Matthew.
(b) St. Edmund.
(c) St. Roslin.
(d) St. Peter.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the first English secular biography?

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

3. When does the author believe that "Waldere" was written?

4. What is the name of the woman who "begged men from Cwaespatric"?

5. How many poems are included in the canon of the "Exeter Book"?

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