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

2. What did the pope do to Alfred?
(a) Anointed him as king.
(b) Ordained him as a priest.
(c) Blessed his military activities.
(d) Ex-communicate him.

3. Where was Alfred the Great sent in 853?
(a) Paris.
(b) Rome.
(c) London.
(d) Berlin.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was Alfred the Great's father?

2. Who was the father of the wife Aethewulf brought home from Rome?

3. When was Alfred the Great born?

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

5. What new wife did Aethewulf bring from Rome?

(see the answer key)

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