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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the answer to the "best known riddle in this genre" (Anglo-Saxon literature)?

3. What is "elf-shot"?

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

5. Who does St. Gregory thank for having teachers "among us now"?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. Why does the fisherman state that he would not wish to fish for whales?

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

9. What are the twelve charms?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What seems to be an embedded theme throughout all of Anglo-Saxon texts? What theme is addressed in all of the examples provided in "The Anglo-Saxon World"? Support your answer drawing from at least one text from each of the sections.

Essay Topic 2

Exile was a main theme throughout Anglo-Saxon literature. What selection from the text best represents the theme of exile? Why? Be sure to use textual evidence.

Essay Topic 3

Compare and contrast Beowulf and Grendel. How do each epitomize good and evil?

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