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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Bede.
(b) Colombus.
(c) Aristotle.
(d) Aelfric.

2. How many charters and grants survive from the Anglo-Saxon period?
(a) More than 1,600.
(b) 1589.
(c) 5.
(d) 200.

3. In "A Colloquy" what does the pupil say he prefer to ignorance?
(a) To be exiled.
(b) To be imprisoned.
(c) To be mute.
(d) To be flogged.

4. Who "asked" the best known riddle of the Anglo-Saxon riddles?
(a) The Sphinx.
(b) The Griffin.
(c) The Nemean Lion.
(d) The Centaur.

5. What position was Candidus set to take up in Gaul?
(a) Senior churchman.
(b) Senior monk.
(c) Cardinal.
(d) Deacon.

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

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

8. What does Aelfric say is revealed when Christ performs miracles through saints?
(a) Trust.
(b) Dedication.
(c) True faith.
(d) Power of God.

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

10. In what year was the "Exeter Book" bequeathed to the Cathedral Library?
(a) 874.
(b) 758.
(c) 998.
(d) 1072.

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

12. Where did the act of freeing a slave take place to "prevent subsequent violation"?
(a) At the lord's home.
(b) In a court.
(c) At an alter.
(d) In the town square.

13. Where, according to the excerpt from "The History of the English Church and People," had the slaves that Gregory saw hail from?
(a) France.
(b) Germany.
(c) Northumberland.
(d) Britian.

14. According to "The History of the English Church and People," how does Bede describe the complexions of the slaves seen by Gregory in the Roman marketplace?
(a) Blemished.
(b) Fair.
(c) Pock-marked.
(d) Darkened.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What were "embedded" in 10th and 11th century manuscripts that were defined as short incantations?

2. What was the first English secular biography?

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

4. In what century was "An Estate Memorandum" written?

5. Who raided Lindisfarne on June 8, 793?

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