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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Many psalms express outrage with the author's enemies and pleas to God for ______.

2. What was the first work that Alfred the Great had translated for himself?

3. How many sub-chapters are in the code?

4. The next document is between Alfred the Great and ______.

5. What was Alfred's final prose translation?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the significance of Pope Gregory's Dialogues to King Alfred?

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

3. Explain Alfred's law-code.

4. Explain the role that faith played in Alfred's life.

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

6. What three people died between 888 and 890?

7. What is the purpose of Chapter II?

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

9. What is the penultimate document? What are double acrostics?

10. When did Alfred die? How long did he rule?

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