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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Charters, Tracts, and Wills.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whose will is the earliest surviving will of any Anglo-Saxon king?
(a) King Bede.
(b) King Hreather.
(c) King Solomon.
(d) King Alfred.

2. What does "The Seafarer" learn that ships are homes of?
(a) Honesty.
(b) Solitude.
(c) Hope.
(d) Saddness.

3. Where does the wanderer's "best source of comfort lie"?
(a) In himself.
(b) In hope for land.
(c) In his sails.
(d) In his lord.

4. Who was the king, whose will is the earliest surviving of Anglo-Saxon history, preoccupied with threat by?
(a) Swedes.
(b) Northumberlands.
(c) Danes.
(d) Geats.

5. What adjective does the poet of "The Seafarer" use to describe the song that he sings of himself?
(a) Dorment.
(b) Angry.
(c) Sad.
(d) True.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the author in the introduction what (other than "Beowulf") is the best -known Anglo-Saxon poem?

2. In "The Ruin," what does the author name as "wondrous" and "wrecked by fate"?

3. According to the introduction to "Greetings in Christ," who possessed "the sword of Constantine the Great"?

4. In what year was Boniface born?

5. What is the author of "The Wanderer" searching for in his elegy?

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