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

2. Who does Hrothgar know from Beowulf's family?
(a) His grandfather.
(b) His mother.
(c) His uncle.
(d) His father.

3. What does "eorpan motor" mean?
(a) Mother's ear.
(b) Exiled man.
(c) Eastern light.
(d) Mother of earth.

4. Who wrote "Letter to the English"?
(a) Canute.
(b) Wulfstan.
(c) Alfred.
(d) Kent.

5. Besides "The Wife's Lament," what is the only other Anglo-Saxon poem written by a woman?
(a) The Marriage-Oath.
(b) Brazen.
(c) The Promise
(d) Wulf.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "The Battle of Maldon," who "over-confidently allowed the Danes to cross the causeway"?

2. What is the name of the hero in "The Finnesburh Fragment"?

3. Who does St. Gregory thank for having teachers "among us now"?

4. The object in the second stanza of "Thirty-One Riddles" is what by nature?

5. In what year did Gregory send Augustine to Kent?

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