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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. How many poems are included in the canon of the "Exeter Book"?

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

3. At the time of the meeting between the teacher and the hunter, why had the hunter not hunted "today"?

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

5. During the conversation between the teacher and the fowler, what do readers find out the fowler "does" to birds "in many ways"?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What are the twelve charms?

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

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

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

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

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

Religion seemed to have saved the lives of many a seafaring man. Compare the religious thought in both "The Wanderer" and "The Seafarer." How are the authors' thoughts similar? In what ways was religion necessary for survival?

Essay Topic 3

What do you believe to be the most important section of the book? Why? What does its inclusion add to the text? What would its exclusion mean to the history of Anglo-Saxon literature?

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