14.

On his way back to Camelot, Sir Gawain accuses himself

of:
b) cowardice
1. What legendary figure from Scandinavian mythology a) lechery
c) covetousness
d) navety
features the opening of Deor's Lament?
a) Eormanric
b) Thor
15. What was Naegling?
c) Welund
d) Nihad
a) Beowulf's son
b) Beowulf's horse
c)Beowulf's queen
d) Beowulf's sword
2. Which phrase describes kennings best?
a) figures of alliteration
b) figures of ambiguity
c) figures of variation
d) figures of allegory

Identify the following fragment by title and provide a

3. Who founded the Lindisfarne Monastery (AD 635),
concise literary analysis of it:
sacked by the Vikings at the end of the 8th century?
a) Caedmon
b) Cynewulf
[...] 'TWAS now, men say, in his sovran's need
c) Pope Gregory I
d) Aidan
that the earl made known his noble strain,
craft and keenness and courage enduring.
4. Hrothgar's speech warns young hero Beowulf against:
Heedless of harm, though his hand was burned,
a) the hostility of nature
b) pride
hardy-hearted, he helped his kinsman.
c) the slaying of kinsmen
d) treachery
A little lower the loathsome beast
he smote with sword; his steel drove in
5. Which figure of speech is used predominantly in The bright and burnished; that blaze began
Dream of the Rood?
to lose and lessen. At last the king
a) dream vision
b) allegory
wielded his wits again, war-knife drew,
c) kenning
d) personification
a biting blade by his breastplate hanging,
and the Weders'-helm smote that worm asunder,
6. Which notion characterizes best the Anglo-Saxon concept felled the foe, flung forth its life.
of Wyrd?
a) determinism
b) fatalism
c) primitive communism
d) ubi sunt

Starting from his own statement: I preach nothing except

for gain., assess the character of Chaucer's Pardoner.
7. Which territory was first abandoned by the Britons to the
Anglo-Saxon invaders?
a) London
b) Essex
c) The Isle of Wight
d) Kent

Quiz:

8. When did the Romans initiate the conquest of Britain?

a) 54 BC
b) 122 AD
c) 43 AD
d) 77 AD
9.

To avenge Grendel's death, his mother retaliates by killing

Hrothgar's advisor:
a) Unferth
b) Hygelac
c) schere
d) Breca
10. Caedmon, by tradition author of the Hymn of Creation,
was an illiterate:
a) saint
b) farmer
c) cowherd
d) friar

11. What is Hythloday's first name in More's Utopia? :

a) Thomas
b) Gabriel
c) Raphael
d) Peter
12. Chaucer's Miller would often win one in wrestling
contests:
a) goat
b) ram
c) cock
d) ox
13. The Battle of Brunanburh, preserved in The Anglo-Saxon
Chronicle, is the story of a/an:
a) an English victory
b) an English defeat
c)a siege by the Scots
d) a Viking raid