View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter I, Asser's Life of King Alfred, Paragraphs 33 - 90.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did Asser write his Life of King Alfred?
(a) 895.
(b) 899.
(c) 871.
(d) 893.

2. What is listed in paragraph two?
(a) Alfred's siblings.
(b) Alfred's birth.
(c) Alfred's mother's family.
(d) Alfred's childhood.

3. In what year did Asser meet Alfred the Great?
(a) 899.
(b) 885.
(c) 871.
(d) 862.

4. When was the epithet "the Great" added to Alfred's name?
(a) Sometime during the seventeenth century.
(b) Not until the last fifty years or so.
(c) After the sixteenth century.
(d) Before the fifteenth century.

5. What did King Aethewulf order his wife to do when he and Alfred returned to the kingdom?
(a) Live with him in order to report all his activities to King Aethewulf.
(b) Seduce him.
(c) Visit him often in order to keep him distracted.
(d) Sit with him on the throne until he died.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did an army invade England, taking a variety of smaller kingdoms?

2. Asser probably divided his time between Alfred's kingdom and ______.

3. Asser aided negotiations between Alfred the Great and ______.

4. Where did Aethelstan slaughter the Viking army?

5. What did Alfred build in 878?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 182 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample