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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter I, Asser's Life of King Alfred, Paragraphs 91 - 106.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Sit with him on the throne until he died.
(c) Seduce him.
(d) Visit him often in order to keep him distracted.

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

3. What did Asser later become?
(a) A bishop.
(b) A literary publisher.
(c) A university dean.
(d) A royal court attendant.

4. Who took over when King Aethelred died?
(a) Aethelred's cousin.
(b) Alfred.
(c) Alfred's son.
(d) Aethelred's son.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did Asser meet Alfred the Great?

2. Who was pope when Alfred was sent to Rome?

3. How many candles did Alfred have made?

4. Why was Alfred the Great sent away in 853?

5. How many siblings did Alfred the Great have?

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