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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 33 - 90.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Alfred build in 878?
(a) An abbey.
(b) A fortress.
(c) A church.
(d) A university.

2. When did Burgred, the new king of the Mercians, ask Aethewulf for help against the Vikings?
(a) 851.
(b) 865.
(c) 864.
(d) 853.

3. What did King Aethewulf order his wife to do when he and Alfred returned to the kingdom?
(a) Visit him often in order to keep him distracted.
(b) Sit with him on the throne until he died.
(c) Seduce him.
(d) Live with him in order to report all his activities to King Aethewulf.

4. What county was protected against invaders during the reign of Alfred the Great?
(a) Avon.
(b) Kent.
(c) Cork.
(d) Wessex.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Asser's Life of King Alfred begins with Asser's dedication of the work to Alfred "ruler of all the ______ of the island of Britain, King of the Angles and Saxons."

2. Where did the Vikings go in 873?

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

4. What did Asser later become?

5. What work by Pope Gregory did Asser help translate?

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