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

2. One of the riddles in the "Exeter Book" was used "to show the way in which the runic alphabet was a kind of"?
(a) Useless knowledge.
(b) Artifact.
(c) Gospel.
(d) Conundrum.

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

4. Who was the prior of the monastery at Dol Brittany in 924?
(a) Radbrod.
(b) Albert.
(c) Malbroad.
(d) Heather.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What sickness does "Bald's Leechbook" address in the opening line?

2. In what century did Old English become a "vehicle capable of expressing scientific thought"?

3. At dawn what is the first thing that the ploughman does in the morning?

4. What is the alternate name that the introduction to "I Saw a Strange Creature..." gives to kennings?

5. As the author states in the introduction to "I Saw a Creature...," what do some riddles reflect?

Short Essay Questions

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

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 does the ploughman say his day is spent doing?

5. Why does the fisherman state that he would not wish to fish for whales?

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

7. According to the author of the introduction to "I Saw A Creature...," what "relief" does the author state is found in Anglo-Saxon riddles?

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

9. Why were some Anglo-Saxon women known by the kenning "peace-weaver"?

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

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