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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who said "What use is the abundance of books if there are none to read and understand them?"
(a) Asser.
(b) Bede.
(c) Columbia.
(d) Alcuin of York.

2. Where was Boniface leading a mission when he was killed?
(a) Lul.
(b) Northumbrian.
(c) Frisia.
(d) Fulrad.

3. What is embedded in the hilt of the sword of Constantine the Great?
(a) A marking denoting the Annunciation.
(b) A parable from the Book of Mathew.
(c) A nail from the Cross.
(d) A Widow's mite.

4. Whose power does the opening line of "For a Swarm of Bees" recognize?
(a) God's.
(b) Man's
(c) Earth's.
(d) Nature's.

5. In "Greetings in Christ," what does the author of the section say are susceptible to the "wear and tear of centuries"?
(a) Letters.
(b) Poems.
(c) Sermens.
(d) Christian thought.

6. What is the answer to the "best known riddle in this genre" (Anglo-Saxon literature)?
(a) Dog.
(b) Woman.
(c) God.
(d) Man.

7. What is the alternate name that the introduction to "I Saw a Strange Creature..." gives to kennings?
(a) Hyperbolies.
(b) Personifications.
(c) Mini-Riddles.
(d) Allegories.

8. In what year was Boniface born?
(a) 655.
(b) 698.
(c) 675.
(d) 702.

9. In what year did Gregory send Augustine to Kent?
(a) 597.
(b) 658.
(c) 781.
(d) 449.

10. Who raided Lindisfarne on June 8, 793?
(a) Christians.
(b) Pagan heathens.
(c) Celtic monks.
(d) Vikings.

11. How many times a day does the shepard milk his sheep?
(a) 2 times.
(b) Never- he doesn't own sheep.
(c) Once.
(d) 3 times.

12. In the "Grant of Land at Crediton," the king of what area gave land to be used for a monastary?
(a) West Saxons.
(b) Ireland.
(c) Northumberland.
(d) South Danes.

13. Who was the godson of Aethelstan?
(a) Alucin.
(b) Alan the Great.
(c) Mercia.
(d) Constantine.

14. Who does St. Gregory thank for having teachers "among us now"?
(a) God.
(b) Waerferth.
(c) Bede.
(d) Greeks.

15. What does the first object in "Thirty-One Riddles" plunge through?
(a) Waves.
(b) Brush.
(c) Minds.
(d) Wind.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the introduction to "Greetings in Christ," who possessed "the sword of Constantine the Great"?

2. What kingdom does the author of the introduction to "Greetings in Christ" say the "boys" came from?

3. What object was given "store" as seen in "Beowulf" and named to a recipient in one king's will?

4. Who "asked" the best known riddle of the Anglo-Saxon riddles?

5. In what year did Alcuin of York leave England at the request of Charlemagne?

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