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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Laws, and The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How was the history and legends of the Anglo-Saxons transmitted?
(a) Canons.
(b) Written anthologies.
(c) Word of mouth.
(d) They were not discovered until late in the 14th century and then written down.

2. Who wrote "Letter to the English"?
(a) Canute.
(b) Kent.
(c) Alfred.
(d) Wulfstan.

3. Why, according to Wihtred's law number 4, will foreigners be forced to "depart from the land with their goods and their sins"?
(a) If they do not "rugularize their marriage."
(b) If they "fail to recognize the king's laws."
(c) If they "refuse to succumb to fate."
(d) If they fail the rights of passage."

4. According to number 19, in "Letter to the People of England," how many men are to go to church and "make supplication"?
(a) All men.
(b) Only the bards.
(c) All priests.
(d) Only the lords.

5. What is the name of the hero in "The Finnesburh Fragment"?
(a) Hrothgar.
(b) Wyglaf.
(c) Beowulf.
(d) Hengest.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the person that "was a crucial member of a tribe or a society" and existed as "a living memory"?

2. What is a compressed narrative poem?

3. During what century did the first Anglo-Saxon settlers migrate to England?

4. What two words were used in a trial by ordeal to define the seriousness of the crime?

5. How many shillings will it cost someone if they were to "breach the Church's protection"?

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