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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is "elf-shot"?
(a) Dysentary
(b) Lumbago.
(c) Mange.
(d) Disambiguation.

2. At the time of the meeting between the teacher and the hunter, why had the hunter not hunted "today"?
(a) It was Sunday.
(b) He has been ill.
(c) The lord of the region forbid hunting.
(d) He broke his arm and can no longer hunt.

3. What is the name of the woman who "begged men from Cwaespatric"?
(a) Fromberge.
(b) Geatfleda.
(c) Slavariac.
(d) Norschairt.

4. What does the moth devour in "Thirty-One Riddles"?
(a) War.
(b) Hunger.
(c) Words.
(d) Breath.

5. How many stress patterns does all Old English poetry contain?
(a) 6.
(b) 4.
(c) 12.
(d) 7.

6. What was the name of the first book that King Alfred translated into the vernacular?
(a) "Pastoral Care."
(b) "Historical Moments in the Catholic Church."
(c) "The Importnace of Christianity."
(d) "Sins and Sinners."

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

8. What object was given "store" as seen in "Beowulf" and named to a recipient in one king's will?
(a) Sword.
(b) Shield.
(c) Throne chair.
(d) Goblet.

9. In the stanza beginning "I'm a strange creature," what does the strange creature state it satisfies?
(a) Cravings.
(b) Women.
(c) Hunger.
(d) Thirst.

10. In what year did Pope Gregory pen a letter to Candidus?
(a) 603.
(b) 410.
(c) 557.
(d) 595.

11. In "A Colloquy" what profession does the pupil have?
(a) A ploughman.
(b) A hunter.
(c) A carpenter.
(d) A monk.

12. Who, living between the years 955-1020, does the author of the introduction to Example and Exhortation state was the "most significant figure in this age of religious and educational reform"?
(a) Colombus.
(b) Aristotle.
(c) Bede.
(d) Aelfric.

13. What kingdom does the author of the introduction to "Greetings in Christ" say the "boys" came from?
(a) South Daneland.
(b) Deira.
(c) Lul.
(d) Northumbria.

14. What was the name of the most powerful English king "prior to Alfred"?
(a) Stewenard.
(b) Frestern.
(c) Offa.
(d) Leunstead.

15. What were "embedded" in 10th and 11th century manuscripts that were defined as short incantations?
(a) Four humors.
(b) Nine decending levels.
(c) Twelve charms.
(d) Six "knowns."

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the prior of the monastery at Dol Brittany in 924?

2. In late Anglo-Saxon England, what were women at liberty to accept or reject?

3. The riddles are described as being both "witty and obscene," and they are given this name?

4. How many of Boniface's letters survive today (at the printing of the text)?

5. What does Aelfric say is revealed when Christ performs miracles through saints?

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