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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What family helped Alexius secure the right of the throne over his brother Isaac?
(a) The Caesar family.
(b) The Claudius family.
(c) The Robert family.
(d) The Ducas family.

2. Who does Alexius leave in power while he was battling Robert?
(a) His mother.
(b) Andromicus.
(c) Isaac.
(d) Irene.

3. Why does Anna think that Rome was weak when his father was fighting for the emperor?
(a) The split between eastern and western empire.
(b) The previous losses because of war.
(c) Plague.
(d) The switch in religion.

4. What does Melissenus want in order to renounce the throne?
(a) Money.
(b) The Papal blessing to divorce.
(c) That he be made Grand General.
(d) To rule Asia.

5. Who does Pope Gregory VII have a dispute with?
(a) Nicephorus Bryennius.
(b) Robert the Norman.
(c) King Henry IV of Germany.
(d) Alexius.

6. What frightens Alexius according to Anna?
(a) The pope.
(b) Robert's will.
(c) Robert's army.
(d) Robert's disregard for his men.

7. What king allies himself with Alexius?
(a) King of Germany.
(b) King of France.
(c) King of Alamania.
(d) King of the Visigoths.

8. What war does Book IV introduce?
(a) War against the Visigoths.
(b) War against the Turks.
(c) War against the Normans.
(d) War against the Franks.

9. Who does Robert go to see with his troops?
(a) John Italus.
(b) Alexius.
(c) Isaac.
(d) The pope.

10. Who does Anna say Botaniates wished to concede the throne to?
(a) Isaac.
(b) Melissenus.
(c) Robert.
(d) Alexius.

11. Which of Alexius' allies is wounded in battle?
(a) Isaac.
(b) Michael.
(c) Palaeologus.
(d) Suleiman.

12. What does Pope Gregory VII accuse the one he had a dispute with of?
(a) Usurpation.
(b) Heresy.
(c) Of being weak.
(d) Of not giving enough money to the church.

13. Why does Melissenus reconsider his claim to the throne according to Anna?
(a) He does not want the responsibility.
(b) His armies defected.
(c) The Comnenus family is powerful.
(d) He was paid off.

14. What strikes Robert's troops after the fighting resumes against Alexius and his allies?
(a) Disease.
(b) Food rationing.
(c) Bad luck.
(d) The death of their horses.

15. What marriage are Isaac and Anna Dalassena able to arrange?
(a) Isaac to the daughter of Robert.
(b) Manuel's daughter to the grandson of the emperor.
(c) Robert to Alexius' sister.
(d) Alexius to the ex-wife of the pope.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Anna's father fight against before becoming emperor?

2. What does Anna say about the accounts in the book?

3. What happens when people realize Alexius survived battle with Robert?

4. When does the war against the Normans end according to the start of Book VI?

5. Who opposes the means Alexius found to raise money?

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