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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What document is included after the will?
(a) Another will.
(b) A treaty.
(c) A charter.
(d) A list of King Alfred's properties.

2. Who wrote the psalms?
(a) Jonah.
(b) Luke.
(c) Adam.
(d) David.

3. What is the next document?
(a) A debate.
(b) A letter.
(c) A transcription from a conversation.
(d) A treaty.

4. Those who disobeyed Alfred were often ______.
(a) Banished.
(b) Ignored.
(c) Imprisoned.
(d) Humiliated.

5. Which of the following does Asser NOT discuss about Alfred's reign?
(a) His phobias.
(b) Conspiracy.
(c) His appointees.
(d) Monastic intrigue.

6. What bishop translated a work by Pope Gregory for King Alfred?
(a) Aelthehelm.
(b) Heahstan.
(c) Aethelred.
(d) Werferth.

7. When Alfred received revenues, he apportioned much of it to ______ affairs.
(a) Military.
(b) Secular.
(c) Family.
(d) Spiritual.

8. What was the first work that Alfred the Great had translated for himself?
(a) The Catholic Catechism.
(b) Dialogues on Faith.
(c) On Prayer.
(d) Pastoral Care.

9. Where did the first portion of the second part of Alfred's money go?
(a) Neighboring monasteries.
(b) The poor.
(c) His monasteries.
(d) The school.

10. Who told Alfred to have works recorded and translated?
(a) God.
(b) Asser.
(c) Pope Manius.
(d) Pope Gregory.

11. Where did the second portion of the second part of Alfred's money go?
(a) Neighboring monasteries.
(b) His monasteries.
(c) The poor.
(d) The school.

12. Who was rebelled against just after Alfred died?
(a) Edward.
(b) Aethelweared.
(c) Aethelwold.
(d) Osferth.

13. Why did Alfred alter passages in the second work translated?
(a) To generate an explicitly Christian message in it.
(b) To simply its explanations for the common man.
(c) To create a better picture of the history of England.
(d) To protect the nobility from sharing their secrets.

14. What was the second work translated?
(a) Discourse on Faith.
(b) Consolation of Philosophy.
(c) Understanding of Psychology.
(d) Explanation of Nobility.

15. What work by Pope Gregory did a bishop translate for King Alfred?
(a) Lectures.
(b) Dialogues.
(c) Homilies.
(d) Letters.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What appeared at Easter in 891?

3. Into what language did a bishop translate Pope Gregory's work?

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

5. Whom did the Vikings fight in 890?

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