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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is a compressed narrative poem?
(a) A ceasura.
(b) A kenning.
(c) A lay.
(d) A prose.

2. According to Wihtred's law 9, how much money is a servant to pay if he is found guilty of working between Saturday evening and Sunday evening?
(a) 50 sceattas.
(b) 25 sceattas.
(c) 100 sceattas.
(d) 80 sceattas.

3. According to the author, what did Anglo-Saxons fail to do for their poetry?
(a) Pay hommage to their past.
(b) Honor God.
(c) Follow the "code".
(d) Title them.

4. Where is Hrothgar's kingdom?
(a) East Saxon.
(b) Hwicca.
(c) Northumbria.
(d) Daneland.

5. Whose arrival signaled the Golden Age of Northumbria?
(a) Bede.
(b) Cuthbert.
(c) Columbia.
(d) Celtic monks.

6. What is the author of "The Wanderer" searching for in his elegy?
(a) A new love.
(b) A new ship.
(c) A new wife.
(d) A new lord.

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

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

9. What is the name of the person that "was a crucial member of a tribe or a society" and existed as "a living memory"?
(a) The jester.
(b) The knave.
(c) The scop.
(d) The clergy.

10. What is Grendel unable to approach in Heorot?
(a) The throne.
(b) Beowulf.
(c) The banner.
(d) The queen.

11. What does the word "wergild" mean?
(a) A man's value.
(b) The succession of kinship.
(c) The naming of a bard.
(d) A families land.

12. Why, according to Wihtred's law number 4, will foreigners be forced to "depart from the land with their goods and their sins"?
(a) If they "refuse to succumb to fate."
(b) If they fail the rights of passage."
(c) If they "fail to recognize the king's laws."
(d) If they do not "rugularize their marriage."

13. What is the name of the island that Cuthbert died on?
(a) Geatland Isle.
(b) Great Farne.
(c) Viestiern.
(d) Frumberia.

14. During what century did the first Anglo-Saxon settlers migrate to England?
(a) 5th.
(b) 6th.
(c) 7th.
(d) 8th.

15. What is the name of the monastery spoken of in "Caedmon's Vision"?
(a) Frentage.
(b) Dominion.
(c) Whitby.
(d) Mantre.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the man that Beowulf challenges to a swimming race?

2. During what century were the Anglo-Saxons converted to Christianity?

3. Wihtred was king over what people?

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

5. What does "The Seafarer" learn that ships are homes of?

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