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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. In the 19th century Alfred the Great was seen as the founder of the British _______ and ______.
(a) Royal Air Force; colonization.
(b) Navy; Empire.
(c) Police force; Empire.
(d) Library system; public education.

2. What career did Asser have?
(a) Writer.
(b) Artist.
(c) Monk.
(d) Professor.

3. Whom did Alfred the Great visit while passing through Carolingian France?
(a) Jason the Argonaut.
(b) Catherine the Peaceful.
(c) Louis the Educated.
(d) Charles the Bald.

4. What time period is not recorded in Asser's book?
(a) The 890s.
(b) The 870s.
(c) The 880s.
(d) The 860s.

5. Where were the Vikings in 855?
(a) Surrey.
(b) Wessex.
(c) London.
(d) Sheppey.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who fought against the Vikings at Kent?

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

3. Which of the following themes does NOT characterize the political history of Anglo-Saxon England in the first half of the ninth century?

4. At what estate was Alfred the Great born?

5. How was the kingdom split between father and son?

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