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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many couriers did Alfred the Great send out in 889?
(a) Two.
(b) Twelve.
(c) One.
(d) Four.

2. Why did Alfred alter passages in the second work translated?
(a) To simply its explanations for the common man.
(b) To generate an explicitly Christian message in it.
(c) To create a better picture of the history of England.
(d) To protect the nobility from sharing their secrets.

3. What is the next document?
(a) A debate.
(b) A treaty.
(c) A letter.
(d) A transcription from a conversation.

4. What is discussed in the first part of Chapter IV?
(a) King Alfred's promises to his people.
(b) King Alfred's spiritual beliefs.
(c) King Alfred's laws.
(d) King Alfred's military interests.

5. Where did the first portion of the second part of Alfred's money go?
(a) His monasteries.
(b) Neighboring monasteries.
(c) The poor.
(d) The school.

6. Where did the Vikings travel in 894?
(a) Ireland.
(b) Wales.
(c) London.
(d) Scotland.

7. What positive aspects of Alfred the Great's reign did Asser discuss?
(a) His hobbies.
(b) His accomplishments.
(c) His family.
(d) His parties.

8. What work by Pope Gregory did a bishop translate for King Alfred?
(a) Lectures.
(b) Dialogues.
(c) Homilies.
(d) Letters.

9. How does Alfred divide the laws the he himself did not write?
(a) Into those he altered and those that remain unaltered.
(b) Into those from the Bible and those from secular sources.
(c) Into those that were conservative and those that were liberal.
(d) Into those he likes and those he does not like.

10. What was the name of the king who died in 890?
(a) Exeter.
(b) Aelthehelm.
(c) Guthrum.
(d) Heahstan.

11. Into what language did a bishop translate Pope Gregory's work?
(a) Latin.
(b) French.
(c) German.
(d) Old English.

12. What is the name of the relative of Alfred's that died in 888?
(a) Aethelsyd.
(b) Aethelswith.
(c) Aethelberg.
(d) Aethelfor.

13. Who was rebelled against just after Alfred died?
(a) Aethelweared.
(b) Edward.
(c) Osferth.
(d) Aethelwold.

14. What appeared at Easter in 891?
(a) A lunar eclipse.
(b) A comet.
(c) An image of the Virgin Mary in the sky.
(d) A solar eclipse.

15. Who wrote the first work that Alfred had translated for himself?
(a) Pope Leo.
(b) St. Francis of Assisi.
(c) Pope Gregory.
(d) Thomas Aquinas.

Short Answer Questions

1. The second work translated was a dialogue between Boethius and ______.

2. How many Viking armies did the Northumbrians and East Angles fight?

3. Where did the story of King Alfred's rule come from?

4. Where did the fourth portion of the second part of Alfred's money go?

5. How many sub-chapters are in the code?

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