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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Sermon, and Destiny.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What poem is described by the author as "an antiquarian's delight"?
(a) Wulf.
(b) Beowulf.
(c) The Wanderer.
(d) The Ruin.

2. What is the name of the man that Beowulf challenges to a swimming race?
(a) Hrunting.
(b) Wiglaf.
(c) Brecca.
(d) Unferth.

3. Who translated Bede's "History of the English Church and People"?
(a) Sintertra.
(b) Columbia.
(c) Alfred.
(d) Pound.

4. In "The Battle of Maldon," who "over-confidently allowed the Danes to cross the causeway"?
(a) King Alfred.
(b) Byrhtnoth.
(c) Bede.
(d) King of Wessex.

5. What is the traditional kenning for a wife?
(a) Care-granter.
(b) Child-bearer.
(c) Peace-weaver.
(d) Home-taker.

Short Answer Questions

1. Under what circumstances could a wife obtain all of the husband's suit?

2. Who is the first century Roman historian that the author claims is the best source for "information about Germanic tribes"?

3. In the stanza beginning "I'm a strange creature," what does the strange creature state it satisfies?

4. Who was the king, whose will is the earliest surviving of Anglo-Saxon history, preoccupied with threat by?

5. In what year did Alcuin of York leave England at the request of Charlemagne?

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