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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 1 - 32.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who fought against the Vikings at Kent?
(a) Lamech.
(b) Frithuwulf.
(c) Berhtwulf.
(d) Bedwig.

2. Whom did Alfred the Great come to rule in 871?
(a) The Celts.
(b) The East Saxons.
(c) The West Saxons.
(d) The Northern Angles.

3. Where did Aethelstan slaughter the Viking army?
(a) Wessex.
(b) Sandwich.
(c) Canterbury.
(d) Surrey.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where were the Vikings in 855?

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

3. One historian theorized that Life of King Alfred was written by whom?

4. Where does Asser give some biographical details about himself?

5. What kind of phraseology does Asser use in his book?

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