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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. During the conversation between the teacher and the fowler, what do readers find out the fowler "does" to birds "in many ways"?
(a) Damages them.
(b) Entrances them.
(c) Fools them.
(d) Entices them.

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

3. Whose translation of "The Wanderer" is best known?
(a) J.R.R. Tolkien's.
(b) Shakespeare's.
(c) Ezra Pound's.
(d) Socrates'.

4. What do some believe the "Exeter Book" has been used as in the past?
(a) All of those listed.
(b) Bread and cheese board.
(c) Beer mat.
(d) Cutting Board.

5. In "The Finnesburh Fragment," what does the first line say is "not burning"?
(a) The pits of Hell.
(b) The sky.
(c) The gables.
(d) The spires.

Short Answer Questions

1. What object was given "store" as seen in "Beowulf" and named to a recipient in one king's will?

2. How many of Boniface's letters survive today (at the printing of the text)?

3. Who was the patron saint of Northumbria?

4. What kingdom does the author of the introduction to "Greetings in Christ" say the "boys" came from?

5. According to the author of the introduction to The Elegies, what do many Anglo-Saxon poems fail to have a "sufficient frame" of?

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