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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 was the name of the most powerful English king "prior to Alfred"?
(a) Frestern.
(b) Leunstead.
(c) Stewenard.
(d) Offa.

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

3. What was the name of the first book that King Alfred translated into the vernacular?
(a) "Pastoral Care."
(b) "Historical Moments in the Catholic Church."
(c) "Sins and Sinners."
(d) "The Importnace of Christianity."

4. What is the answer to the "best known riddle in this genre" (Anglo-Saxon literature)?
(a) Man.
(b) God.
(c) Woman.
(d) Dog.

5. What kingdom does the author of the introduction to "Greetings in Christ" say the "boys" came from?
(a) Deira.
(b) Northumbria.
(c) South Daneland.
(d) Lul.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who said "What use is the abundance of books if there are none to read and understand them?"

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

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

4. In what year was the "Exeter Book" bequeathed to the Cathedral Library?

5. What is "elf-shot"?

Short Essay Questions

1. In 754, what was deemed a reminder that "some pagans were determined to resist Christianity at all costs"?

2. Where was the greatest amount of scientific prose found in Anglo-Saxon literature?

3. Why does the author to the introduction of "I Saw a Strange Creature..." state that Anglo-Saxon riddles "satisfy us both as enigmas and as poems"?

4. What are a few of the "problems" that "Bald's Leechbook" addresses?

5. In what ways was the "Exeter Book" used prior to the book's importance being known?

6. In the beginning, when Latin was still a widely used language, what was English primarily used for?

7. What does the ploughman say his day is spent doing?

8. What are the four things that the shepherd does every day?

9. Why do the pupils in "A Colloquy" ask to be taught Latin?

10. What are the twelve charms?

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