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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. What object was given "store" as seen in "Beowulf" and named to a recipient in one king's will?
(a) Shield.
(b) Throne chair.
(c) Sword.
(d) Goblet.

2. Who "asked" the best known riddle of the Anglo-Saxon riddles?
(a) The Centaur.
(b) The Griffin.
(c) The Nemean Lion.
(d) The Sphinx.

3. Under what circumstances could a wife obtain all of the husband's suit?
(a) If she outlives him, and they have a child.
(b) If she outlives him.
(c) If they divorce, and they have a child.
(d) If she found him guilty of lechery.

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

5. Who was the prior of the monastery at Dol Brittany in 924?
(a) Malbroad.
(b) Radbrod.
(c) Albert.
(d) Heather.

Short Answer Questions

1. The riddles are described as being both "witty and obscene," and they are given this name?

2. What physical feature did Gregory state made the name of the "Angles" appropriate?

3. As the author states in the introduction to "I Saw a Creature...," what do some riddles reflect?

4. One of the riddles in the "Exeter Book" was used "to show the way in which the runic alphabet was a kind of"?

5. What is the traditional kenning for a wife?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the reason that many Anglos found it necessary to learn the English language?

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

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

4. Describe the three sections of "Bald's Leechbook".

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

6. What are a few of the "problems" that "Bald's Leechbook" addresses?

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

8. What are the four things that the shepherd does every day?

9. What happened to the letters that survived pre-Conquest England?

10. Why do the pupils in "A Colloquy" ask to be taught Latin?

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