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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does the introduction of "I Saw a Strange Creature..." say riddles similar to the semi-metaphorical riddles of the "Exeter Book" occur?
(a) Writings of the Pearl Poet.
(b) Beowulf.
(c) The Bible.
(d) Chaucer's texts.

2. What was the name of the first book that King Alfred translated into the vernacular?
(a) "Historical Moments in the Catholic Church."
(b) "Pastoral Care."
(c) "The Importnace of Christianity."
(d) "Sins and Sinners."

3. What is the name of the woman who "begged men from Cwaespatric"?
(a) Slavariac.
(b) Norschairt.
(c) Geatfleda.
(d) Fromberge.

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

5. The object in the second stanza of "Thirty-One Riddles" is what by nature?
(a) Scared.
(b) Wounded.
(c) Mean.
(d) Solitary.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many times a day does the shepard milk his sheep?

2. At the time of the meeting between the teacher and the hunter, why had the hunter not hunted "today"?

3. Who said "What use is the abundance of books if there are none to read and understand them?"

4. Who is the first of the "Three Charms" against?

5. What was the name of the monk in the monastery at Ramsey who complied a handbook on computus?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the merchant justify his worth to the teacher?

2. Why did Pope Gregory I write a letter to Candidus?

3. In the beginning, when Latin was still a widely used language, what was English primarily used for?

4. Why were some Anglo-Saxon women known by the kenning "peace-weaver"?

5. Why does the fisherman state that he would not wish to fish for whales?

6. Who wrote many of the letters that survived pre-Conquest England?

7. To whose writings are the Anglo-Saxon riddles compared?

8. What is the basic subject matter of Anglo-Saxon riddles?

9. Describe the appearance of the slaves that Gregory I came across prior to becoming Pope.

10. Why does the author to the introduction of "I Saw a Strange Creature..." state that Anglo-Saxon riddles "satisfy us both as enigmas and as poems"?

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