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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What illness did Alfred the Great have when he came into power?
(a) Severe depression and anxiety.
(b) Makola disease.
(c) Tuberculosis.
(d) It was an unknown illness.

3. What is not recorded in Asser's book?
(a) Alfred's military activities.
(b) Alfred's childhood.
(c) Alfred's alliances with other kings.
(d) Alfred's death.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where were the Vikings in 855?

2. In what year did Asser meet Alfred the Great?

3. When did the Vikings leave East Anglia?

4. Where did Aethelstan slaughter the Viking army?

5. Where did Alfred have something built in 878?

Short Essay Questions

1. What three themes characterize the political history of Anglo-Saxon England in the first half of the ninth century?

2. Describe Alfred's youth.

3. What was the relationship between Asser and Alfred?

4. List at least three events in Alfred's youth that probably influenced him.

5. What happened to the kingdom of Wessex during King Alfred's reign? What happened as a result?

6. What kind of style did Asser use in writing his Life of King Alfred?

7. Into what three periods can Alfred's reign be divided?

8. What was the audience Asser intended for his Life of King Alfred?

9. Where does most of what we know about Alfred come from?

10. What was King Alfred's significance to the kingdom of Wessex?

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