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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. 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 scop.
(b) The clergy.
(c) The jester.
(d) The knave.

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

5. How was the history and legends of the Anglo-Saxons transmitted?
(a) Written anthologies.
(b) Word of mouth.
(c) Canons.
(d) They were not discovered until late in the 14th century and then written down.

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

7. During what century were the Anglo-Saxons converted to Christianity?
(a) 10th.
(b) 8th.
(c) 7th.
(d) 5th.

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

9. What century was it when pagan Germanic tribesman "swarmed" into England?
(a) 7th.
(b) 4th.
(c) 6th.
(d) 5th.

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

11. In what year were Wihtred's laws issued?
(a) 875.
(b) 524.
(c) 695.
(d) 1210.

12. According to the introduction to the Heroic Poems section, what do heroic poems link our Anglo-Saxon ancestors to?
(a) Dutch origins.
(b) Geatland origins.
(c) French origins.
(d) European origins.

13. How many shillings will it cost someone if they were to "breach the Church's protection"?
(a) 50 shillings.
(b) 25 shilings.
(c) 75 shillings.
(d) 15 shillings.

14. In "The Battle of Maldon," who does Byrhtnoth order to dismount?
(a) The priest.
(b) His wife.
(c) Every warrior.
(d) His bard.

15. Who is Grendel a descendant of?
(a) Cain.
(b) God.
(c) Lucifer.
(d) Hrothgar.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "The Husband's Message" how many times does the husband remind his wife of their oath of marriage?

2. How many people witnessed the opening of Cuthbert's coffin at Durham Cathedral?

3. According to the author of the introduction to The Elegies, what do many Anglo-Saxon poems fail to have a "sufficient frame" of?

4. Who does the author of "The Battle of Brunanburh" state is a "man of discretion"?

5. According to the author in the introduction what (other than "Beowulf") is the best -known Anglo-Saxon poem?

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