Question 1
 Name four languages that contributed to
the make-up of modern English.
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Answer
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Latin
Anglo-Saxon (Germanic)
French
Scandinavian
Question 2
 1. When did the Anglo-Saxon period in
British history begin and end?
Answer
 449-1066
Question3
 Who conquered England in 1066?
Answer
 William the Conqueror
Question 4
 Who were the Druids?
Answer
 Celtic priests who settled disputes
Question 5
 Who is Beowulf’s loyal thane?
Answer
 Wiglaf
Question 6
 Who is Hrothgar’s queen?
Answer
 Wealthow
Question 7
 What Victorian piece corresponds in
structure and in content to “Seafarer”?
 Who wrote it?
Answer
 Matthew Arnold’s “Dover Beach”
Question 8
 What is the condition of the modern
world compared to in “Dover Beach”?
Answer
 Ignorant armies fighting at night.
Question 9
 Who wrote Paradise Lost?
Answer
 John Milton
Question 10
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Who wrote each of the following:
A. “Shooting an elephant”
B. “The Lamb,” and “The Tyger”
C. “Rocking-Horse Winner:
Answer
 George Orwell
 William Blake
 D.H. Lawrence
Question 11
 Name 3 characteristics of Anglo-Saxon
poetry.
Answer
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4.
Kennings
Caesuras
Alliteration
Roughly four stressed beats a line
Question 12
 Organize each of the following in the
order in which they were written:
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1.
2.
3.
4.
Paradise Lost
5. The Lamb
Seafarer
6. Shooting an E
Dover Beach
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Answer
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1. Seafarer
2. Paradise Lost
3. The Lamb
4. Dover Beach
5. Shooting an Elephant
6. Rocking Horse Winner
Question 13
 Name 3 works that mention God.
Answer
 1. Beowulf
 2. Paradise Lost
 3. Seafarer
Question 14
 Name two works that portray the evils of
money.
Answer
 Rocking-horse Winner
 Seafarer
Question 15
 Name the work that questions the
benevolence of a Creator.
Answer
 The Tyger
Question 16
 Name 3 Anglo-Saxon Works.
Answer
 1. Beowulf
 2. Seafarer
 3. Wife’s Lament
Question 17
 What was the name of the thane who
was jealous of Beowulf?
Answer
 Unferth
Question 18
 What was the name of the nonfiction
work that may have led to the writing of
“Dover Beach”?
Answer
 Origin of the Species
Question 19
 Who were Beowulf’s people?
 Who were Hrothgar’s?
Answer
 Geats
 Danes
Question 20
Identify Hrunting and Herot.
Answer
 Beowulf’s sword
 Mead-hall
Question 21
 What enabled the Vikings to become a
military power?
Answer
 Their ships
Question 22
 What language was the Anglo-Saxon
Chronicle written in?
Answer
 Old English
Question 23
 What two countries form the setting for
Beowulf?
Answer
 Denmark
 Geatland
Question 24
 Where does “Shooting an Elephant”
take place?
Answer
 Burma
Question 25
 Complete the following line from
Paradise Lost:
 It is better to reign in hell
 Than to _______________________.
 Heaven
Question 26
 What are the two epics we studied?
Answer
 Beowulf and Paradise Lost
Question 27
 What are the two elegies we studied?
Answer
 “The Seafarer”
 “Wife’s Lament”