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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 position was Candidus set to take up in Gaul?
(a) Senior churchman.
(b) Deacon.
(c) Senior monk.
(d) Cardinal.

2. What did the runic alphabet come to be used for later (after its first use)?
(a) Identification.
(b) Pagan theology.
(c) Christian theology.
(d) Coding.

3. Who "asked" the best known riddle of the Anglo-Saxon riddles?
(a) The Griffin.
(b) The Nemean Lion.
(c) The Sphinx.
(d) The Centaur.

4. What is "elf-shot"?
(a) Dysentary
(b) Disambiguation.
(c) Lumbago.
(d) Mange.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the introduction of "I Saw a Strange Creature..." say riddles similar to the semi-metaphorical riddles of the "Exeter Book" occur?

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

3. At the time of the meeting between the teacher and the hunter, why had the hunter not hunted "today"?

4. How many times a day does the shepard milk his sheep?

5. In "A Colloquy" what does the pupil say he prefer to ignorance?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the reason that many Anglos found it necessary to learn the English language?

2. Who wrote many of the letters that survived pre-Conquest England?

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

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

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

6. What was the purpose of "An Estate Memorandum"?

7. In what ways was the runic alphabet used throughout Anglo-Saxon history?

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

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

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

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