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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What information does Alexius receive at the start of Book IX?
(a) Part of his army fell into a trap.
(b) A plot is unfolding in Constantinople.
(c) Part of his army defected.
(d) Tzachas' movements.

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

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

6. Who lays siege to numerous cities according to Anna in Book IX?
(a) Bolcanus.
(b) Diogenes Nicephorus.
(c) Tzachas.
(d) Bohemund.

7. Why does Bohemund send men to meet with Alexius?
(a) To offer an alliance.
(b) To make peace.
(c) To warn him of a conspiracy against him.
(d) To ask him to surrender.

8. Who tries to raise an army to go after Alexius according to Anna?
(a) Bohemund.
(b) The Turks
(c) Tzachas.
(d) The Dalmatians.

9. What year is the beginning of Book VIII set in?
(a) 1093.
(b) 1092.
(c) 1091.
(d) 1094.

10. What does Anna say was not safe at the end of Book VIII?
(a) The southern border.
(b) Isaac's position.
(c) The throne.
(d) His mother.

11. Where do the Scythians attack Alexius' army?
(a) Constantinople.
(b) Babylon.
(c) Choereni.
(d) Tiber.

12. What Sultan starts to amass an army to fight for the Asian land ruled by Alexius?
(a) Suliman.
(b) Saisan.
(c) Sahib.
(d) Paklarouch.

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

14. What does Alexius set fire to according to Anna?
(a) Antipolis.
(b) Ankara.
(c) The Sultan's palace.
(d) Bohemund's ships.

15. Who flees after the event of Levunium?
(a) The Turks.
(b) The Comans.
(c) The Scythians.
(d) Bohemund's army.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Anna say Alexius finds and imprisons while he is conquering the Scythians?

2. What does Anna say Bohemund did to fool Alexius at the end of Book XI?

3. At what church do all the forces amassed come to worship?

4. What happens at Levunium according to Anna?

5. What do Alexius and Bohemund swear for at the end of the negotiations?

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