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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who said "What use is the abundance of books if there are none to read and understand them?"
(a) Asser.
(b) Alcuin of York.
(c) Bede.
(d) Columbia.

2. What is the name of the island that Cuthbert died on?
(a) Viestiern.
(b) Geatland Isle.
(c) Frumberia.
(d) Great Farne.

3. Who made the weapon with which Beowulf beheads Grendel's mother?
(a) Danes.
(b) Elves.
(c) Giants.
(d) Geats.

4. What did the runic alphabet come to be used for later (after its first use)?
(a) Christian theology.
(b) Identification.
(c) Pagan theology.
(d) Coding.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Hrothgar promise Beowulf for killing Grendel?

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

3. What was the first use of the runic alphabet?

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

5. The object in the second stanza of "Thirty-One Riddles" is what by nature?

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