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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. How many Viking armies did the Northumbrians and East Angles fight?
(a) Two.
(b) Four.
(c) Six.
(d) Three.

2. The second part of the code is from whom?
(a) Edward.
(b) Alfred.
(c) Moses.
(d) Ine.

3. Chapter II translates the annals that cover Alfred's life that pick up from ______?
(a) Alfred's marriage.
(b) Where Asser's writing left off.
(c) The birth of Alfred's son.
(d) The death of Asser.

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

5. How does Alfred divide the laws the he himself did not write?
(a) Into those he likes and those he does not like.
(b) Into those that were conservative and those that were liberal.
(c) Into those from the Bible and those from secular sources.
(d) Into those he altered and those that remain unaltered.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is addressed in the will?

2. What did Alfred the Great want to restore to England?

3. What document is included after the will?

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

5. Where did the first portion of the second part of Alfred's money go?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the significance of Alfred's will? Why did his will cause a rebellion against Edward just after Alfred died?

2. What two major challenges did Alfred face during his reign?

3. Why does King Alfred alter passages of Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy? What do these alterations reveal about Alfred?

4. What is the significance of Pope Gregory's Pastoral Care to King Alfred? What is its focus?

5. Who joined forces when the Vikings were attacking the Franks?

6. What three people died between 888 and 890?

7. What did Alfred do with the revenues he received?

8. What is Bishop Wulfsige's preface to the translation of Gregory's Dialogues?

9. What is the purpose of Chapter II?

10. Where did the Vikings go in 896? What happened?

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