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

2. What was the relationship between Pope Marinus and Alfred the Great?
(a) They were friends.
(b) Pope Marinus was Alfred's spiritual advisor.
(c) Pope Marinus baptized Alfred into the Roman Catholic Church.
(d) Alfred went to school with Marinus before he became pope.

3. When did Pope Marinus die?
(a) 880.
(b) 891.
(c) 885.
(d) 879.

4. When was the epithet "the Great" added to Alfred's name?
(a) Sometime during the seventeenth century.
(b) After the sixteenth century.
(c) Before the fifteenth century.
(d) Not until the last fifty years or so.

5. Where did King Alfred and his ally go to fight the Vikings?
(a) London.
(b) Wessex.
(c) Reading.
(d) Wales.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Ceorl fight with the men of Devon?

2. Why was Alfred the Great sent away in 853?

3. Where did the Vikings fight the king of the Saxons, Aethelwulf and his son Aethelbald for a long time?

4. Where does Asser give some biographical details about himself?

5. What new wife did Aethewulf bring from Rome?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What was the relationship between Asser and Alfred?

4. What happened to Eadburh when her husband, the West Saxon king, died?

5. What happened when Aethelwulf went with Alfred to Rome?

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

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

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

9. Who was Alfred's father? How far back is his lineage traced on his father's side?

10. What audience read Asser's Life of King Alfred?

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