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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Appendices.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Alfred the Great's spiritual life like?
(a) He was exceptionally religious.
(b) He gave appearances of being exceptionally religious, but was an atheist.
(c) He respected Christianity, but did not practice it.
(d) He was an ordained priest.

2. What was the name of the king who died in 890?
(a) Exeter.
(b) Heahstan.
(c) Guthrum.
(d) Aelthehelm.

3. When did the Vikings leave East Anglia?
(a) 899.
(b) 857.
(c) 865.
(d) 871.

4. Where did the Vikings go in 872?
(a) Reading.
(b) London.
(c) Canterbury.
(d) Wessex.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did the first portion of the second part of Alfred's money go?

2. Where did Alfred have something built in 878?

3. When was the earliest surviving version of the story written?

4. Where did the Vikings spend the winter?

5. What was the condition of peace made with the Vikings?

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