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WorksheetsAnglo Saxons Video Quiz
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 7mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
What are the years of the Anglo Saxon period?
a)
1066 CE-1380 CE
b)
450 CE-1066 CE
c)
1380 CE-1500CE
d)
50 CE-600 CE
2.
The names of seven days of the week come from the Anglo Saxons.
a)
True
b)
False
3.
The Beowulf story takes place in...
a)
Scandanavia, 5th Century
b)
Britannia, 5th century
c)
Britannia, 8th century
d)
Scandanavia, 8th century
4.
The Beowulf poem was written down by scops.
a)
True
b)
False
5.
The name of the Anglo Saxon story teller:
a)
Thane
b)
Knight
c)
Lyre
d)
Scop
6.
Anglo Saxon knights were called:
a)
Thanes
b)
Knights
c)
Lyres
d)
Scops
7.
The Germanic system of compensation to families of murder victims:
a)
comitatus
b)
wergild
c)
rhetoric
d)
runes
8.
The Germanic system of loyalty to the king from thanes, and loyalty to thanes from the king is called:
a)
rhetoric
b)
wergild
c)
comitatus
d)
runes
9.
The Anglo Saxons were a patriarchal society.
a)
True
b)
False
10.
Pagans worship only one god.
a)
True
b)
False
11.
What is the term for art told for common people?
a)
Vernacular
b)
Paleaogrophy
c)
Rune
d)
Litotes
12.
Using understatement and the use of 2 negatives to express a positive in order to humble brag.
a)
Formal boasting
b)
Flyting
c)
Litotes
d)
Rhetoric
13.
The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words on a line or lines of poetry.
a)
consonance
b)
assonance
c)
alliteration
d)
kenning
14.
The repetition of consonant sounds anywhere is words on a line or lines of poetry.
a)
consonance
b)
assonance
c)
synecdoche
d)
kenning
15.
A compound expression with metaphorical meaning.
Ex: bee-hunter, whale-road
Ex: bee-hunter, whale-road
a)
synecdoche
b)
kenning
c)
assonance
d)
consonance
16.
The figure of speech where one part of a whole is used to represent the whole.
a)
synechdoche
b)
consonance
c)
kenning
d)
flyting
17.
Who rediscovered the Beowulf poem in 1936?
a)
Sutton Hoo
b)
Some monks
c)
J.R.R. Tolkein
d)
J.K. Rowling
18.
Beowulf and Ecgtheow are names that are examples of:
a)
metonyms
b)
litotes
c)
kenning
d)
alliteration
19.
A highly competitive, ritualized exchange of insults.
a)
Formal boasting
b)
litotes
c)
metonymy
d)
flyting
20.
Which countries comprise Scandinavia?
a)
England and Ireland
b)
Scotland, Denmark, Finland
c)
Denmark, Norway, Sweden
d)
Norway, Finland, Switzerland
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