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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 do some believe the "Exeter Book" has been used as in the past?
(a) Beer mat.
(b) All of those listed.
(c) Bread and cheese board.
(d) Cutting Board.

2. What physical feature did Gregory state made the name of the "Angles" appropriate?
(a) Their hands.
(b) Their bowed heads.
(c) Their hair.
(d) Their faces.

3. According to the introduction of Example and Exhortation, what language did King Alfred learn to translate texts into the "vernacular" of?
(a) Druid.
(b) French.
(c) Celtic.
(d) Latin.

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

5. In the stanza beginning "I'm a strange creature," what does the strange creature state it satisfies?
(a) Hunger.
(b) Women.
(c) Cravings.
(d) Thirst.

Short Answer Questions

1. What position was Candidus set to take up in Gaul?

2. In the stanza that begins "I saw a creature," what sticks out behind the creature?

3. How many stress patterns does all Old English poetry contain?

4. In "A Colloquy" what profession does the pupil have?

5. Where was Boniface leading a mission when he was killed?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. What are the twelve charms?

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

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

10. How does the merchant justify his worth to the teacher?

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