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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What aspect of the document included after the will is particularly interesting?
(a) The witnesses.
(b) The circumstances.
(c) The conditions.
(d) The date.

2. Where were Alfred's candles burned?
(a) At relics.
(b) In his private prayer chapel.
(c) At cathedrals.
(d) At cemeteries.

3. Why did Alfred chose the work he did to be the first to be translated for himself?
(a) It was recommended to him by Asser.
(b) It focused on the traits needed for men in government.
(c) It was a childhood favorite.
(d) It was a gift from his father.

4. Where did the Vikings travel in 894?
(a) London.
(b) Ireland.
(c) Wales.
(d) Scotland.

5. What did Alfred focus on the care of?
(a) The religious.
(b) The uneducated.
(c) The poor.
(d) The immigrants.

6. Who wrote the psalms?
(a) Jonah.
(b) Adam.
(c) David.
(d) Luke.

7. The document included after the will gives what to Aethelhelm?
(a) A portion of the kingdom.
(b) A neighboring kingdom.
(c) A wife.
(d) An estate.

8. Where did the story of King Alfred's rule come from?
(a) Alfred's private journals.
(b) The Wessex Chronicle.
(c) Asser's interviews with members of his court.
(d) The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle.

9. Whose Soliloquies did Alfred translate?
(a) St. Augustine's.
(b) Thomas Aquinas's.
(c) Pope Gregory's.
(d) St. Francis's.

10. How many couriers did Alfred the Great send out in 889?
(a) One.
(b) Two.
(c) Twelve.
(d) Four.

11. Where did the fourth portion of the second part of Alfred's money go?
(a) The poor.
(b) The school.
(c) His monasteries.
(d) Neighboring monasteries.

12. The second work translated was a dialogue between Boethius and ______.
(a) The Earl of Wessex.
(b) Lady Philosophy.
(c) Dr. Freud.
(d) The Virgin Mary.

13. Where did the first portion of the second part of Alfred's money go?
(a) Neighboring monasteries.
(b) The poor.
(c) His monasteries.
(d) The school.

14. Where did the third portion of the second part of Alfred's money go?
(a) The poor.
(b) Neighboring monasteries.
(c) His monasteries.
(d) The school.

15. Why could the Vikings not remain where they went in 894?
(a) They had too few resources.
(b) They were battled back by enemy forces.
(c) The winter was too harsh.
(d) They were called away by the king to another area.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was the next document produced?

2. Who sent a letter to Alfred around 886?

3. What was the second work translated?

4. Who was rebelled against just after Alfred died?

5. What was Alfred the Great's spiritual life like?

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