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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. During the conversation between the teacher and the fowler, what do readers find out the fowler "does" to birds "in many ways"?
(a) Entices them.
(b) Entrances them.
(c) Fools them.
(d) Damages them.

2. Who said "What use is the abundance of books if there are none to read and understand them?"
(a) Alcuin of York.
(b) Asser.
(c) Bede.
(d) Columbia.

3. What was the name of the first book that King Alfred translated into the vernacular?
(a) "Pastoral Care."
(b) "Sins and Sinners."
(c) "The Importnace of Christianity."
(d) "Historical Moments in the Catholic Church."

4. In what century was "An Estate Memorandum" written?
(a) 8th or 9th.
(b) 10th or 11th.
(c) 5th or 6th.
(d) 2nd or 3rd.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In what year did Gregory send Augustine to Kent?

3. Who is the first of the "Three Charms" against?

4. Who was the leading astronomer during the period when Old English became a "vehicle capable of expressing scientific thought"?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What are the four things that the shepherd does every day?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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