Discover the Origins of English Literature with Caedmon's Hymn Quiz

• Caedmon was a bard who wrote the first poem about unemployment
• Caedmon was a sailor who wrote a poem about his experiences at sea
• Caedmon was a monk who wrote the first Old English poem
• Caedmon was a lay worker who wrote the first Christian religious poem in English (correct)

• Old English was the language of the artists
• Old English was the language of the church
• Old English was the language of the sailors
• Old English was the language of the everyday people (correct)

• The use of third-person narration
• The use of the language of the church
• The use of the first-person speaker who narrates his experience (correct)
• The use of intertextual references to contemporary literature