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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who ally themselves against Alexius and want to send their ships to lay waste to the sea board?
(a) Turks and Franks.
(b) Pisans and Normans.
(c) Pisans, Genoans and Lombards.
(d) Genoans and Germans.

2. Who does Alexius make Duke of the fleet?
(a) Dyrrachius.
(b) Isaac Contostephanus.
(c) Bohemund.
(d) Michael Ducas.

3. Who conspires against Alexius at the start of Book XIII?
(a) Devol.
(b) Isaac
(c) Aaron.
(d) Strategius.

4. Who plots against Alexius according to Anna?
(a) Michael Ducas.
(b) John Ducas.
(c) Isaac.
(d) Diogenes Nicephorus.

5. How many days is Alexius delayed by the conspiracy against him?
(a) 6 days.
(b) 5 days.
(c) 15 days.
(d) 16 days.

6. What are some of the Counts resisting?
(a) Fighting against the Turks.
(b) Having mercy on their prisoners.
(c) Swearing loyalty to Bohemund.
(d) Swearing loyalty to Alexius.

7. Who engages Tzachas in battle according to Anna?
(a) Michael Ducas.
(b) John Ducas.
(c) Alexius' main army.
(d) Caesar.

8. What treaty is signed in September of 1109 according to Anna?
(a) Constantinople.
(b) Devol.
(c) Varene.
(d) Geneva.

9. Who attacks Bithynia according to Anna?
(a) Bohemund.
(b) The Spaniards.
(c) The Scythians.
(d) The Turks.

10. What hung in the sky for 40 days according to Anna?
(a) A large bird.
(b) God.
(c) A comet.
(d) A mysterious cloud.

11. How many years after peace is made with the Turks do the Comans enter Alexius' empire?
(a) 1 year.
(b) 3 years.
(c) 2 years.
(d) 9 years.

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

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

14. Who does Anna compare her father to at the end of Book XIV?
(a) The 13th apostle.
(b) To God.
(c) Jesus.
(d) The Pope.

15. Where does Alexius send the fleet?
(a) Dyrrachium.
(b) Constantinople.
(c) Dalmacia.
(d) Venice.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of alliance is Bohemund seeking?

2. What happens at Levunium according to Anna?

3. What were the armies coming to Constantinople amassing for?

4. How does Anna qualify Alexius ' victory?

5. Who does Alexius capture after leading a revolt in Trapezus?

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