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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 monk in the monastery at Ramsey who complied a handbook on computus?
(a) Byrhtferth.
(b) Synthegrth.
(c) Stephen.
(d) Detriech.

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

3. How many stress patterns does all Old English poetry contain?
(a) 6.
(b) 7.
(c) 4.
(d) 12.

4. In the stanza that begins "I saw a creature," what sticks out behind the creature?
(a) His foot.
(b) His stomach.
(c) A row of spines.
(d) His tail.

5. Who is named in the opening line of "A Grant of Land at Crediton"?
(a) Bede.
(b) God.
(c) Columbia.
(d) King Alfred.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who "asked" the best known riddle of the Anglo-Saxon riddles?

2. Whose power does the opening line of "For a Swarm of Bees" recognize?

3. In what year did Pope Gregory pen a letter to Candidus?

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

5. What does "eorpan motor" mean?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why did Pope Gregory I write a letter to Candidus?

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

4. Describe the three sections of "Bald's Leechbook".

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

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

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

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

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

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

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