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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many candles did Alfred have made?
(a) Three.
(b) Six.
(c) Twelve.
(d) Ten.

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

3. What aspect of his money did Alfred believe God would reward?
(a) Giving to charity.
(b) Saving for an inheritance.
(c) Tithing.
(d) Spending it for his subjects.

4. What was Alfred the Great's spiritual life like?
(a) He gave appearances of being exceptionally religious, but was an atheist.
(b) He was an ordained priest.
(c) He was exceptionally religious.
(d) He respected Christianity, but did not practice it.

5. What aspect of the document included after the will is particularly interesting?
(a) The circumstances.
(b) The witnesses.
(c) The date.
(d) The conditions.

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

7. What benefit did the translations have for Alfred the Great?
(a) Interpersonal communication skills.
(b) Spiritual consolation.
(c) Education.
(d) Personal edification.

8. What did Alfred the Great want to restore to England?
(a) The books it once contained.
(b) Spiritual enlightenment.
(c) Religious culture.
(d) Education.

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

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

11. Where did the story of King Alfred's rule come from?
(a) Alfred's private journals.
(b) The Wessex Chronicle.
(c) Asser's interviews with members of his court.
(d) The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle.

12. What bishop translated a work by Pope Gregory for King Alfred?
(a) Heahstan.
(b) Aelthehelm.
(c) Werferth.
(d) Aethelred.

13. Though Alfred grew in prominence, he was still plagued by what?
(a) Severe depression.
(b) Fear of the unknown future.
(c) Assassination attempts.
(d) Attacks by foreign peoples.

14. 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 he likes and those he does not like.
(c) Into those from the Bible and those from secular sources.
(d) Into those that were conservative and those that were liberal.

15. When Alfred received revenues, he apportioned much of it to ______ affairs.
(a) Spiritual.
(b) Family.
(c) Military.
(d) Secular.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is addressed in the will?

2. The first part of the code is from whom?

3. Who wrote the first work that Alfred had translated for himself?

4. Many psalms express outrage with the author's enemies and pleas to God for ______.

5. Why did Alfred chose the work he did to be the first to be translated for himself?

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