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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. Who does Robert want as emperor according to Anna?
(a) Isaac.
(b) Palaeologus.
(c) Alexius.
(d) Michael.

2. Who does Anna say tries to act in order to remove the suspicion that arose after Alexius took power?
(a) Michael Ducas.
(b) John Ducas.
(c) Queen Anna.
(d) Irene.

3. Who does Anna's father fight against before becoming emperor?
(a) Vercingetorix.
(b) Ursel.
(c) Clovis.
(d) Obelix.

4. Who became Patriarch under Alexius?
(a) Eustratius Garidas.
(b) Caesar Classius.
(c) Isaac.
(d) Andromicus.

5. What rumor appears after Alexius is crowned emperor according to Anna?
(a) He would try to expand toward the Frank kingdom.
(b) He would force the conversion of the Turks.
(c) He would not take a queen.
(d) He would take Queen Maria as wife.

Short Answer Questions

1. What language does Anna speak according to the Preface and Book I?

2. What does Anna say happens after the Scythians violate a truce?

3. Who crowns Alexius emperor?

4. What emperor sent Alexius to fight in eastern provinces?

5. What rank does Anna says Alexius attained under Nicephorus?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happened to Paleaologus during one of the battles described in Book IV?

2. What is the prophecy at the end of Book II?

3. What happened when people heard that Alexius survived the battle?

4. What does Alexius realize about Robert in Book V?

5. What happens to the night ambush Alexius planned in Book IV?

6. What was the role of the Comans in Book VII?

7. Who were the Paulicians and what happened during their suppression?

8. What is the significance of the adoption discussed in Book II?

9. What does Alexius discover on his way back to Constantinople and what does Alexius do as a result?

10. At the end of Book V, what happened to the heretic when Alexius returned home?

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