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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter IV, Miscellaneous Sources for the Reign of King Alfred.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whose Soliloquies did Alfred translate?
(a) St. Augustine's.
(b) St. Francis's.
(c) Thomas Aquinas's.
(d) Pope Gregory's.

2. What annals were put together during and following Alfred's reign?
(a) The Wessex Annals.
(b) The Journals of Alfred the Great.
(c) The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle.
(d) The England Annals.

3. Where was Asser from?
(a) Paris, France.
(b) Oxford University.
(c) Limerick, Ireland.
(d) St. David's in Wales.

4. Asser probably divided his time between Alfred's kingdom and ______.
(a) St. David's.
(b) Paris.
(c) St. Augustine's.
(d) London.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What benefit did the translations have for Alfred the Great?

3. Who told Alfred to have works recorded and translated?

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

5. What is addressed in the will?

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