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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 is "elf-shot"?

2. In what century was "An Estate Memorandum" written?

3. What is the alternate name that the introduction to "I Saw a Strange Creature..." gives to kennings?

4. In "A Colloquy" what profession does the pupil have?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. 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"?

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

7. What was the purpose of "An Estate Memorandum"?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why do you think that riddles where important during the Anglo-Saxon period? What purpose did they serve? Why did they focus on the themes they did?

Essay Topic 2

Christianity quickly became the superior religion for Anglo-Saxons. What did Christianity hold for Anglos? Why was it found to be superior to previous religious thought?

Essay Topic 3

The history of the Anglo-Saxons was very important for many reasons. Why did the loss of so many documents hurt the history of the Anglos? What was important about the documents that they were able to protect? What were the Anglos able to learn about their own history based upon these texts?

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