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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. The Vikings split up into roving ______.
(a) Forces.
(b) Bands.
(c) Tribes.
(d) Armies.

4. Who was rebelled against just after Alfred died?
(a) Edward.
(b) Aethelweared.
(c) Aethelwold.
(d) Osferth.

5. How many years did Alfred the Great rule?
(a) 17.
(b) 30.
(c) 28.
(d) 25.

6. Where were the couriers sent in 889?
(a) London.
(b) Rome.
(c) Paris.
(d) Across Europe.

7. Who wrote the first work that Alfred had translated for himself?
(a) Pope Leo.
(b) St. Francis of Assisi.
(c) Thomas Aquinas.
(d) Pope Gregory.

8. What is the name of the relative of Alfred's that died in 888?
(a) Aethelfor.
(b) Aethelberg.
(c) Aethelswith.
(d) Aethelsyd.

9. Asser employed a translation of the annals from 851 to ______ to compose his book.
(a) 887.
(b) 891.
(c) 865.
(d) 899.

10. Whom did the Vikings fight in 890?
(a) The Celts.
(b) The Franks.
(c) The Saxons.
(d) The Angles.

11. What king died in 890?
(a) The western king.
(b) The eastern king.
(c) The southern king.
(d) The northern king.

12. What did Alfred the Great want to restore to England?
(a) Education.
(b) Religious culture.
(c) The books it once contained.
(d) Spiritual enlightenment.

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

14. What did Alfred contribute to the translation of Pope Gregory's work?
(a) An introduction.
(b) A letter to readers.
(c) An addendum.
(d) A dedication.

15. Many psalms express outrage with the author's enemies and pleas to God for ______.
(a) Strength.
(b) Victory.
(c) Power.
(d) Mercy.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose Soliloquies did Alfred translate?

2. What is addressed in the will?

3. Where did the second part of Alfred's money go?

4. Who wrote the psalms?

5. The second part of the code is from whom?

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