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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) Fools them.
(b) Entices them.
(c) Damages them.
(d) Entrances them.

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

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

4. What is the name of the book that the author claims to be the earliest and most substantial work of scientific prose?
(a) "Starcraft of Early England."
(b) Bede's "Times and Tides."
(c) "Leechdoms."
(d) "Bald's Leechbook."

5. How many of Boniface's letters survive today (at the printing of the text)?
(a) Less than 100.
(b) 124.
(c) More than 200.
(d) 5.

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

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

8. What is the subject and tone of Anglo-Saxon riddles?
(a) Never emotional.
(b) Commonly sad.
(c) Enormously varied.
(d) Strictly upbeat.

9. In King Alfred's preface to "St. Gregory's 'Pastoral Care,' who does he "bids greet"?
(a) Bishop Waerferth.
(b) Humber.
(c) Bede.
(d) Rominast.

10. Who was the king, whose will is the earliest surviving of Anglo-Saxon history, preoccupied with threat by?
(a) Swedes.
(b) Geats.
(c) Danes.
(d) Northumberlands.

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

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) Bede.
(c) Aristotle.
(d) Aelfric.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Greetings in Christ," what does the author of the section say are susceptible to the "wear and tear of centuries"?

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

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

4. In what year was the "terrible winter" in "The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle"?

5. Under what circumstances could a wife obtain all of the husband's suit?

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