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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After his capture, what was the relationship between Alfred the Great and the king of the Vikings?
(a) There was no relationship; the king of the Vikings was dead.
(b) They continued to be enemies.
(c) He was Alfred's adoptive son.
(d) They remained friends.

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

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

4. Where does Asser give some biographical details about himself?
(a) In his autobiography.
(b) In his journals.
(c) In the Life of King Alfred.
(d) In a letter about Life of King Alfred.

5. Whom did the Vikings attack when they left East Anglia?
(a) The Northern Celts.
(b) The West Saxons.
(c) The East Angles.
(d) The Scots.

6. How many brothers did Alfred the Great have?
(a) None.
(b) Three.
(c) Four.
(d) Five.

7. 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) Peoples.
(c) Men.
(d) English.

8. What chronicle did Asser use as a basis for his book?
(a) The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle.
(b) The Wessex Chronicle.
(c) The Welsh Chronicle.
(d) The New British Chronicle.

9. What kingdom was Asser from?
(a) Wessex.
(b) Dyfed.
(c) Kent.
(d) Cork.

10. Asser traces Alfred's lineage all the back to whom?
(a) King David.
(b) Moses.
(c) Adam.
(d) Jacob.

11. What work by Pope Gregory did Asser help translate?
(a) Death and Dying.
(b) The Journals of Pope Gregory.
(c) On the Sanctity of Marriage.
(d) Pastoral Care.

12. What audience did Asser have in mind when he wrote his book?
(a) English people.
(b) Alfred's family.
(c) Welsh people.
(d) Other kings.

13. Where did the Vikings go in 873?
(a) Back to their homeland.
(b) To the Scots.
(c) To the Northumbrians.
(d) To the Celts.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In what district was Alfred the Great born?

2. Who took over when King Aethelred died?

3. One historian theorized that Life of King Alfred was written by whom?

4. When did Asser write his Life of King Alfred?

5. What country did Alfred the Great rule?

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