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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. The object in the second stanza of "Thirty-One Riddles" is what by nature?
(a) Scared.
(b) Wounded.
(c) Solitary.
(d) Mean.

2. What was the first English secular biography?
(a) "Charlemagne."
(b) "The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle."
(c) "Life of King Alfred."
(d) "Common Sense."

3. What is the traditional kenning for a wife?
(a) Peace-weaver.
(b) Care-granter.
(c) Home-taker.
(d) Child-bearer.

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

5. Where, according to the excerpt from "The History of the English Church and People," had the slaves that Gregory saw hail from?
(a) Britian.
(b) France.
(c) Germany.
(d) Northumberland.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do some believe the "Exeter Book" has been used as in the past?

2. What is the name of the woman who "begged men from Cwaespatric"?

3. What is the answer to the "best known riddle in this genre" (Anglo-Saxon literature)?

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

5. Whose will is the earliest surviving will of any Anglo-Saxon king?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the hunter receive in return for the beasts that he slays for his king?

2. To whose writings are the Anglo-Saxon riddles compared?

3. Describe the appearance of the slaves that Gregory I came across prior to becoming Pope.

4. What were some of the things that Boniface did when he worked as a missionary between 722 and 752?

5. What happened to the letters that survived pre-Conquest England?

6. What is the basic subject matter of Anglo-Saxon riddles?

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

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

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

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

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