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The 3 Anglo-Saxon Poems Quiz Review

by Ms. McBrearty

​The Seafarer Questions

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Multiple Choice

The Seafarer is in exile because

• it was voluntary 

• his lord died 

• he lost a battle 

• he is looking for his wife 

Multiple Choice

Most images at the beginning of the poem refers to

• coldness

• animals

• heroes

• color

Multiple Choice

The speakers' feelings for the sea are best described as

• hostile and resentful

• cheerful and sympathetic

• respectful and fascinated

• friendly and loving

Multiple Choice

The tone in which the speaker describes earlier times is

• objective, because he describes past events as a reporter would.

• nostalgic, because he speaks with longing

• humorous, because he uses irony to describe the past

• bitter, because he speaks of his former companions with hatred

Multiple Choice

The speaker thinks that the world in its present state is

• an improvement on the past

• striving to improve

• not seriously flawed

• without glory and honor

Multiple Choice

The poem ends with a

• prayer to Thor

• song of praise for the sea

• statement of the poet's beliefs

• return to the speaker's story of the sea

Multiple Choice

Life has taught the speaker that

• life on land can be exciting

• fate and God help only sailors

• worldly glory and power vanish

Multiple Choice

The Seafarer is an elegy and is supported by all of the following statements EXCEPT that the

• speaker begs God's forgiveness

• speaker stresses the transience of earthly life

• poem is filled with a sense of sadness

• speaker laments something lost

Multiple Choice

All of the following quotations from The Seafarer are characteristics of an elegy except

• "The days are gone / When the kingdoms of earth flourished in glory"

• "No passion for women, no worldly pleasures"

• "How the sea ... swept me back / And forth in sorrow"

• "Called me eagerly out, sent me over / The horizon"

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is NOT an example of a kenning?

• summer's sentinel

• whale road

• earthly glory

​The Wanderer Questions

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Multiple Choice

You can tell that the wanderer most keenly feels the loss of his lord when he

• dreams deeply with longing

• imagines kneeling before a throne

• sails endlessly in exile

• remembers seeing his kinsmen killed

Multiple Choice

The first half of "The Wanderer" suggests that the wanderer lives in an emotional state of

• agonized silence

• focused anger

• patient acceptance

• fear and dread

Multiple Choice

"Lonely dawns" (line 8), "wind-swept walls" (line 74), and "mead-halls crumbled" (line 76) are all examples of what literary element?

• k

• me

• litotes

• personification 

Multiple Choice

What does the second half of "The Wanderer" explain?

• The Wanderer must learn to fear God

• Fame, fortune, and life itself are fleeting

• Life at sea is a prelude to life with God.

• the wanderer now speaks from heaven

Multiple Choice

In lines 8-9, "drunk too many lonely dawns" and "Grey with mourning" are examples of what literary element?

• as

• litotes

• metaphor

• alliteration

Multiple Choice

The "Seafarer" is closest in tone and theme with which poem?

• "The Wife's Lament"

• "Deor"

• "The Ruin"

• "The Wanderer"

The Wife's Lament Questions​

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Multiple Choice

The wife is mourning

• her husband

• her son

• her homeland

•  her daughter

Multiple Choice

The wife's first worry is that

• her husband went on a journey

• her husband betrayed her

• her husband became ill

• her husband died

Multiple Choice

The wife is imprisoned

• in a tower

• under an oak tree 

• in her husband 

• in a ship

Multiple Choice

Who supposedly plotted to keep the wife and her husband apart?

• her kinsmen

• her king

• his kinsmen

• no one

Multiple Choice

The wife and her husband once said to each other that

• their love will not last

• only death would divide them

• they should exile themselves

• their love was too toxic

Multiple Choice

What does the wife see that makes her despair?

• flowers

• happy lovers

• a shooting star

• proud

Multiple Choice

The wife imagines that her husband must feel

• ill

• proud

• anguished

• gleeful 

Multiple Choice

The wife feels ______________ at the end of the poem

• hopeful

• grief-stricken

• numb

• ambivalent

Multiple Choice

Which poem is possibly a companion piece for "The Wife's Lament"?

• "Deor"

• "The Husband's Message"

• "The Wanderer"

• "The Seafarer"

Multiple Choice

The word which means "trivial" and "not of much importance" is

• devout

• fervent

• frivolous

• profane

Multiple Choice

The word which means "bitterness" or "resentment" is

• ascension

• rancor

• tarnish

• reeve

Multiple Choice

All of the following themes relate to the three poems EXCEPT

• permanance

• exile

• isolation

• journey 

Multiple Choice

A poem in which the speaker mourns someone or something that has passed away is a(n)

• sonnet

• elegy

• isolation

• exile