View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did the act of freeing a slave take place to "prevent subsequent violation"?

2. One of the riddles in the "Exeter Book" was used "to show the way in which the runic alphabet was a kind of"?

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

4. In what year did Alcuin of York leave England at the request of Charlemagne?

5. How many charters and grants survive from the Anglo-Saxon period?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What are the twelve charms?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What were the characteristics of typical Anglo-Saxon literature? What did the Anglos look for in their heroes? What did Anglos parts of a man's character were praised by the Anglo-Saxons?

Essay Topic 2

Choose one of the riddles presented in "I Saw a Strange Creature..." Look at the final page from the section and list the author's possible answer to the riddle. Choose a contrasting answer for the riddle. Support your answer in a fully developed essay paying special attention to specific textual evidence that supports your answer.

Essay Topic 3

What are three qualities of an elegy? Name the quality, give a textual example, and explain your choice. Why/how does the poem show the specific characteristics of an elegy?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 849 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample