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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 are "bellatores"?
(a) Soldiers.
(b) Ladies in waiting for Anglo-Saxon queens.
(c) Bull fighters.
(d) Lords of great lands.

2. Where does the author state that the emotional center of "Deor" lies (which lines)?
(a) The first eight.
(b) The center stanza.
(c) The first four lines.
(d) The last eight.

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

4. What two words were used in a trial by ordeal to define the seriousness of the crime?
(a) "Single" and "Threefold".
(b) "Thricen" and "Shrine".
(c) "MIsendon" and "Candicet".
(d) "Misson" and "Molten".

5. According to Byrhthelm in "The Battle of Maldon," who alone can say who would control the battle field?
(a) God.
(b) He, himself.
(c) The queen.
(d) The peasantry.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does "eorpan motor" mean?

2. At what age (the boys' age) did Irish monks begin to train Anglo-Saxon boys as novices?

3. In "The Battle of Maldon," who does Byrhtnoth order to dismount?

4. What was the dominant prose form in late Anglo-Saxon England?

5. In "The Finnesburh Fragment," what does the first line say is "not burning"?

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