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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. Whose arrival signaled the Golden Age of Northumbria?
(a) Bede.
(b) Celtic monks.
(c) Columbia.
(d) Cuthbert.

2. In what year did Pope Gregory invite Augustine to convert the English to Christianity?
(a) 238.
(b) 342.
(c) 478.
(d) 597.

3. What is the name of the island that Cuthbert died on?
(a) Viestiern.
(b) Geatland Isle.
(c) Frumberia.
(d) Great Farne.

4. Who does Hrothgar know from Beowulf's family?
(a) His uncle.
(b) His father.
(c) His grandfather.
(d) His mother.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In "The Wanderer," from whom does the wanderer plead for pity and mercy?

2. According to Wihtred's law 9, how much money is a servant to pay if he is found guilty of working between Saturday evening and Sunday evening?

3. Who is the first century Roman historian that the author claims is the best source for "information about Germanic tribes"?

4. At what age (the boys' age) did Irish monks begin to train Anglo-Saxon boys as novices?

5. Who is jealous of Beowulf?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does the author of the introduction to "Heroic Poems" call "The Battle of Maldon" one of "the best battle poems in the English language"?

2. What does Beowulf say about his upcoming battle with Grendel?

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

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

5. What is the Germanic Code?

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

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

8. In what way were the histories and legends passed down during the Anglo-Saxon period?

9. What is the basis of all elegies?

10. What were some of the earliest codes found to survive from the kingdom of Kent (690-725)?

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