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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Like the Jews earlier, the Irish see literacy as a __________________ act.
(a) Educational.
(b) Civilizing.
(c) Cultural.
(d) Religious.

2. Whose student is Plato?
(a) Aristotle.
(b) Socrates.
(c) Plato.
(d) Homer.

3. What was fifth-century Rome considered?
(a) The world's only superpower.
(b) A third-world country.
(c) The most modern society in the known world.
(d) A representative republic.

4. The classic Christian doctrines of original sin, grace, and the trinity are first articulated by this person.
(a) Arminius.
(b) Augustine.
(c) Pelagius.
(d) Julian of Eclanum.

5. Ireland is the only place that Christianity is introduced without:
(a) Controversy.
(b) Religion.
(c) Revolt.
(d) Bloodshed.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was the city of Hippo, where St. Augustine lived?

2. Why does Patricius walk 200 miles to Wexford?

3. Who is the author of How the Irish Saved Civilization?

4. What Psalm was Columcille in the middle of copying the night he died?

5. Which group raids Britain in the fifth century?

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