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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What book served as a style guide for Asser's book?

2. What career did Asser have?

3. Asser aided negotiations between Alfred the Great and ______.

4. Asser's Life of King Alfred begins with Asser's dedication of the work to Alfred "ruler of all the ______ of the island of Britain, King of the Angles and Saxons."

5. What country did Alfred the Great rule?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Explain what happened when the Viking army left East Anglia and attacked the West Saxons.

3. Who were Alfred's children? What lives did they lead?

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

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

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

7. Who are at least three rulers who share Alfred's title of "the Great?"

8. Explain Alfred's reform efforts during his reign.

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

10. What was the relationship between Asser and Alfred?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explain the reputation that developed about King Alfred in the years after his death.

Essay Topic 2

How did Alfred's people receive him as a ruler? What evidence supports this?

Essay Topic 3

Explain the role of education in Alfred's life and reign.

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