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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What causes Beowulf's death?
(a) He drowns in the ocean.
(b) Dragon bite.
(c) He falls from a cliff.
(d) Dragon fire.

2. Who translated Bede's "History of the English Church and People"?
(a) Sintertra.
(b) Columbia.
(c) Pound.
(d) Alfred.

3. Who was the patron saint of Northumbria?
(a) Renche.
(b) Bede.
(c) Columbia.
(d) Cuthbert.

4. Where is Hrothgar's kingdom?
(a) Hwicca.
(b) East Saxon.
(c) Daneland.
(d) Northumbria.

5. What is the oldest surviving poem written in Old English?
(a) Wulf.
(b) Beowulf.
(c) The Dream of the Rood.
(d) Hymn.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote "Letter to the English"?

2. What is the author of "The Wanderer" searching for in his elegy?

3. Whose translation of "The Wanderer" is best known?

4. In "The Battle of Maldon," who does Byrhtnoth order to dismount?

5. Who is Grendel a descendant of?

Short Essay Questions

1. According to the author of the introduction to "Heroic Poems," what purpose do/did the heroic poems serve historically?

2. Why does the author of the introduction to "The Elegies" state that "The Ruin" is "an antiquarian's delight"?

3. What was the order that needed to be followed to exact punishments and define laws during the Anglo-Saxon period?

4. What is the main theme of the poem "The Wanderer"?

5. What happened on Christmas day in 597 in Anglo-Saxon history?

6. What were some of the common problems that lawmakers had to address during the Anglo-Saxon period?

7. Explain the procedure of lawsuits for Anglo-Saxons.

8. What did one of King Edwin's men state were the differences between their time and the time of "which we have no knowledge"?

9. Who was defined as the "most unfortunate man" in Anglo-Saxon society?

10. Why were some laws of the Anglo-Saxon period never put into writing?

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