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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. During the conversation between the teacher and the fowler, what do readers find out the fowler "does" to birds "in many ways"?
(a) Entices them.
(b) Fools them.
(c) Entrances them.
(d) Damages them.

2. In what year did Alcuin of York leave England at the request of Charlemagne?
(a) 782.
(b) 741.
(c) 598.
(d) 677.

3. One of the riddles in the "Exeter Book" was used "to show the way in which the runic alphabet was a kind of"?
(a) Gospel.
(b) Conundrum.
(c) Useless knowledge.
(d) Artifact.

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

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

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

7. In late Anglo-Saxon England, what were women at liberty to accept or reject?
(a) Financial proposals.
(b) Marriage suitors.
(c) Their children.
(d) Exile based upon family err.

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

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

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

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

12. In what century was "An Estate Memorandum" written?
(a) 5th or 6th.
(b) 2nd or 3rd.
(c) 8th or 9th.
(d) 10th or 11th.

13. Who is the first of the "Three Charms" against?
(a) A wen.
(b) A tree.
(c) A snake.
(d) A dog.

14. According to the introduction of Example and Exhortation, what language did King Alfred learn to translate texts into the "vernacular" of?
(a) Druid.
(b) French.
(c) Latin.
(d) Celtic.

15. What does "he wolde fandian" mean?
(a) He would vanquish.
(b) He fashioned the world.
(c) He wanted to search.
(d) He traveled the world.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is embedded in the hilt of the sword of Constantine the Great?

2. Who was the godson of Aethelstan?

3. What is the name of "one of the most popular philosophical books of the Middle Ages"? (According to the author of the introduction.)

4. As the author states in the introduction to "I Saw a Creature...," what do some riddles reflect?

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

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