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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What major city does Anna say is besieged next?
(a) Pise.
(b) Jerusalem.
(c) Massalia.
(d) Antioch.

2. Who dies at the start of Book XIV?
(a) Irene.
(b) Tancred.
(c) Bohemund.
(d) Isaac.

3. What are Bohemund and his allies set to conquer?
(a) Rome.
(b) Nicea.
(c) Massalia.
(d) Lyon.

4. Who allows Bohemund to cross in Ilyria?
(a) The Greeks.
(b) The Venetians.
(c) The Turks.
(d) The Pope.

5. What does Clitziasthlan invite Tzachas to?
(a) A duel to the death.
(b) Hunting.
(c) A dinner.
(d) Fight together.

6. How were the Christians of Ephesus treated according to Anna?
(a) Citizens.
(b) Like everyone else.
(c) With fear.
(d) Slaves.

7. What do Alexius and Bohemund swear for at the end of the negotiations?
(a) To be allies.
(b) Peace.
(c) To marry their children.
(d) To fight together against the Turks.

8. What does Anna say Bohemund did to fool Alexius at the end of Book XI?
(a) Fake his death.
(b) Retreat his army from Jerusalem.
(c) Hire mercenaries to fake an attack on the Venetians.
(d) Burn Jerusalem to the ground.

9. Who joins armies with Bohemund, the Counts and Godfrey according to Anna at the start of Book XI?
(a) Isangeles.
(b) John Ducas.
(c) Isaac.
(d) The Sultan.

10. Who is the Prince of Babylon?
(a) Ampelotes.
(b) Xerxes.
(c) Amerimnes.
(d) Kahkan

11. Who does Alexius capture after leading a revolt in Trapezus?
(a) Isaac Contostephanus.
(b) Dyrrachius.
(c) Bohemund.
(d) Gregory Taronites.

12. Who leads the Norman army according to Anna?
(a) Charles V.
(b) The Flanders brothers.
(c) Peter.
(d) Duke of Normandy.

13. What condition does Bohemund pose in order to visit with Alexius?
(a) That Alexius break his alliance with the Pope.
(b) That he does not kill him.
(c) That he offer him his daughter as wife.
(d) That his men held hostage be released.

14. What does Alexius' plan against the invaders entail according to Anna?
(a) Facing them face to face.
(b) Getting more allies.
(c) Paying them to leave.
(d) Digging a canal.

15. What does Anna say the heretic is ignorant of?
(a) Church tradition.
(b) What he must do to stay alive.
(c) The laws of Constantinople.
(d) Reading.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many years after peace is made with the Turks do the Comans enter Alexius' empire?

2. What army amasses after Alexius is successful in folding the invading army?

3. What happens at Levunium according to Anna?

4. What does Alexius set fire to according to Anna?

5. Who does Anna compare her father to at the end of Book XIV?

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