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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 is the alternate name that the introduction to "I Saw a Strange Creature..." gives to kennings?
(a) Personifications.
(b) Mini-Riddles.
(c) Allegories.
(d) Hyperbolies.

2. How many charters and grants survive from the Anglo-Saxon period?
(a) More than 1,600.
(b) 200.
(c) 1589.
(d) 5.

3. Whose will is the earliest surviving will of any Anglo-Saxon king?
(a) King Hreather.
(b) King Bede.
(c) King Alfred.
(d) King Solomon.

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

5. Where, according to the excerpt from "The History of the English Church and People," had the slaves that Gregory saw hail from?
(a) Britian.
(b) Germany.
(c) Northumberland.
(d) France.

Short Answer Questions

1. What sickness does "Bald's Leechbook" address in the opening line?

2. What is the answer to the "best known riddle in this genre" (Anglo-Saxon literature)?

3. In "A Colloquy" what profession does the pupil have?

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

5. What was the name of the most powerful English king "prior to Alfred"?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does the ploughman say his day is spent doing?

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

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

6. In what ways was the "Exeter Book" used prior to the book's importance being known?

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

8. What are the twelve charms?

9. In 754, what was deemed a reminder that "some pagans were determined to resist Christianity at all costs"?

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

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