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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. In the "Grant of Land at Crediton," the king of what area gave land to be used for a monastary?
(a) South Danes.
(b) West Saxons.
(c) Ireland.
(d) Northumberland.

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

3. What sickness does "Bald's Leechbook" address in the opening line?
(a) Mange.
(b) Shingles.
(c) Leprosy.
(d) Tumors.

4. How many of Boniface's letters survive today (at the printing of the text)?
(a) 124.
(b) Less than 100.
(c) 5.
(d) More than 200.

5. The object in the second stanza of "Thirty-One Riddles" is what by nature?
(a) Scared.
(b) Solitary.
(c) Mean.
(d) Wounded.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What was the name of the monk in the monastery at Ramsey who complied a handbook on computus?

4. What do some believe the "Exeter Book" has been used as in the past?

5. What did the runic alphabet come to be used for later (after its first use)?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What are the twelve charms?

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

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

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

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

7. Why does the author to the introduction of "I Saw a Strange Creature..." state that Anglo-Saxon riddles "satisfy us both as enigmas and as poems"?

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

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

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

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