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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what year was the "terrible winter" in "The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle"?
(a) 763.
(b) 631.
(c) 847.
(d) 296.

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

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

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

5. Who was the leading astronomer during the period when Old English became a "vehicle capable of expressing scientific thought"?
(a) Bede.
(b) Ramsey.
(c) Aelfric.
(d) Bald.

6. According to the introduction to "Greetings in Christ," who possessed "the sword of Constantine the Great"?
(a) Colombia.
(b) St. Maurice.
(c) Aethelstan.
(d) Alan the Geat.

7. What was the first use of the runic alphabet?
(a) Rituals.
(b) Education of children.
(c) Magic.
(d) Education of slaves.

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

9. What is the traditional kenning for a wife?
(a) Care-granter.
(b) Peace-weaver.
(c) Home-taker.
(d) Child-bearer.

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

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

12. What was the name of the monk in the monastery at Ramsey who complied a handbook on computus?
(a) Stephen.
(b) Synthegrth.
(c) Detriech.
(d) Byrhtferth.

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

14. How many poems are included in the canon of the "Exeter Book"?
(a) 78.
(b) 52.
(c) 114.
(d) 96.

15. What is the name of "one of the most popular philosophical books of the Middle Ages"? (According to the author of the introduction.)
(a) "Justifications of Philosophical Thought."
(b) "Consolation of Philosophy."
(c) "Intermediate Teachings of Higher Thought."
(d) "Ancient Beliefs and Modern Philosophies."

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did Pope Gregory pen a letter to Candidus?

2. In the stanza that begins "I saw a creature," what sticks out behind the creature?

3. What does the "metrical irregularity" of the charms point to?

4. One of the riddles in the "Exeter Book" was used "to show the way in which the runic alphabet was a kind of"?

5. What physical feature did Gregory state made the name of the "Angles" appropriate?

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