Practice · MCQ · Old English

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Set 1 · Across the whole age50 questions at each level · the age, its poems, manuscripts, prose and terms Coming soon
Set 2 · Poetry and the verse line50 questions at each level · Beowulf, the elegies, Cædmon, Cynewulf, the riddles Coming soon
Set 3 · Prose and its writers50 questions at each level · Alfred, the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, Ælfric, Wulfstan, the law codes Coming soon
Set 4 · Manuscripts and survival50 questions · the four codices, the Ruthwell Cross, Sutton Hoo, the 1731 fire Coming soon
Set 5 · Terms, dates and sources50 questions · kenning, caesura, comitatus, wergild, futhorc, Danelaw, Danegeld Coming soon
Set 6 · Criticism and scholarship50 questions · Ker, Chambers, Klaeber, the 1936 lecture, Whitelock, Magoun, Heaney Coming soon

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Change nothing and you get fifty questions in thirty-three minutes.

How many questions

Anything from 10 to 100.

How long

minutes

That is about 40 seconds a question.

50 questions · 33 minutes · about 40 seconds each

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