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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 of the following did NOT share the title "the Great" with Alfred?
(a) Charles.
(b) Charlemagne.
(c) Otto.
(d) Andrew.

2. What is listed in paragraph two?
(a) Alfred's siblings.
(b) Alfred's birth.
(c) Alfred's mother's family.
(d) Alfred's childhood.

3. What was nearly destroyed by the Vikings?
(a) London.
(b) Wessex.
(c) Canterbury.
(d) Shakespeare's Globe Theatre.

4. One historian theorized that Life of King Alfred was written by whom?
(a) A forger.
(b) A university professor.
(c) Alfred himself.
(d) Alfred's sister.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Asser from?

2. Who was Inglid's brother?

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. What did Asser aid Alfred the Great in creating for many in his kingdom?

5. What audience did Asser have in mind when he wrote his book?

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