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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What time period is not recorded in Asser's book?
(a) The 860s.
(b) The 880s.
(c) The 870s.
(d) The 890s.

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

3. When did Asser write his Life of King Alfred?
(a) 871.
(b) 895.
(c) 899.
(d) 893.

4. Where was Asser before he met Alfred?
(a) London, England.
(b) An obscure part of Wales.
(c) It is not known where he was.
(d) The northern English countryside.

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

6. Alfred's mother was descended from the ______ and Jutes.
(a) French.
(b) Vikings.
(c) Goths.
(d) Celts.

7. What kind of phraseology does Asser use in his book?
(a) Academic.
(b) Overly formal.
(c) Informal.
(d) Archaic.

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

9. Asser aided negotiations between Alfred the Great and ______.
(a) Vikings.
(b) Welsh kings.
(c) Local nobility.
(d) English kings.

10. How many siblings did Alfred the Great have?
(a) Six.
(b) Five.
(c) Four.
(d) Three.

11. In what year did Asser meet Alfred the Great?
(a) 885.
(b) 862.
(c) 871.
(d) 899.

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

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

14. What did Asser provide regarding Alfred the Great?
(a) A bust.
(b) A biography.
(c) A museum.
(d) An oil painting.

15. 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."
(a) Christians.
(b) English.
(c) Men.
(d) Peoples.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who of the following did NOT share the title "the Great" with Alfred?

2. Who made peace with the Vikings after Aethelred died?

3. What is the origin of Asser's name?

4. What book served as a style guide for Asser's book?

5. Where did King Alfred and his ally go to fight the Vikings?

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