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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. Why does Anna say her account of the events that took place is accurate?
(a) She never lies because she knows God is watching.
(b) She has trustworthy witnesses.
(c) She was alive when they took place and she has reliable witnesses.
(d) She has the letters her father sent to her mother.

2. What punishment does the conspirator receive?
(a) Banishment and imprisonment.
(b) Put to death.
(c) Banishment.
(d) His hands are cut off.

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

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

5. Who's Turkish troops does Anna say Alexius defeated?
(a) Corosan.
(b) Tancred.
(c) Saisan.
(d) Suliman.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who tries to raise an army to go after Alexius according to Anna?

3. What does Anna say the heretic is ignorant of?

4. Where do the Scythians attack Alexius' army?

5. Who does Alexius make Duke of the fleet?

Short Essay Questions

1. What plot did Alexius create in Book X of "The Alexiad" and was it successful?

2. What happened with Nilus at the beginning of Book X?

3. Where does Alexius want to travel and who does he ask to accompany him?

4. What is happening in Nicea at the beginning of Book XI?

5. What happened to the Scythians in the battle at Levenium that proved pivotal to the war?

6. What does Anna say about Alexius' pain?

7. What was not safe, according to Book VIII?

8. Why are the Turks terrified?

9. Why did Alexius' advisers try to dissuade him?

10. What plot is planned by the citizens of Antioch and Anemades?

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