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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the modern-day name of the country from which the barbarians that attacked and eventually conquered Rome came?
(a) Britain.
(b) Ireland.
(c) Denmark.
(d) Germany.

2. How does How the Irish Saved Civilization describe the Irish?
(a) Protestant Anglo-Saxons.
(b) Celtic Protestants.
(c) Celtic Catholics.
(d) Anglo-Saxon Catholics.

3. What is the name of the barbarian who besieges Rome?
(a) Genghis Khan.
(b) Beowulf.
(c) Alaric.
(d) Attila.

4. Who is the author of How the Irish Saved Civilization?
(a) Charles Dickens.
(b) Mark Twain.
(c) Thomas Cahill.
(d) Albert Payson Terhune.

5. In Rome, what occupation was called the "class of worms?"
(a) Slaves.
(b) Tax collectors.
(c) Soldiers.
(d) Professors.

6. What is the only Celtic nation-state in the world?
(a) Ireland.
(b) England.
(c) Wales.
(d) Scotland.

7. Why does the deal between Queen Medb and the bull's owner fall through?
(a) Medb doesn't have a daughter.
(b) The bull dies.
(c) King Ailil kills the bull's owner.
(d) The intermediaries get drunk and fight.

8. These people preserved Europe's Greco-Roman and Judaeo-Christian heritage.
(a) Romans.
(b) Vikings.
(c) Irish.
(d) Gauls.

9. To which ethnic grouping do the Irish belong?
(a) Celts.
(b) Normans.
(c) Saxons.
(d) Welsh.

10. When Queen Medb's messenger finds a replacement bull, what are the terms under which its owner agrees to lend it to her?
(a) Financial profit and his choice of one of Medb's own cows.
(b) Financial profit and Medb's own "friendly thighs."
(c) His choice of one of Medb's own cows and Medb's own "friendly thighs."
(d) His choice of one of Medb's own cows and her daughter's hand.

11. What position is Ausonius given in the year 375 A.D.?
(a) Proconsul.
(b) Co-regent.
(c) Chief of Staff.
(d) Prelate.

12. According to Ireland's foundation myth, the sons of Mil reached Ireland from Spain and took Ireland from the "People of the Goddess _________."
(a) Anu.
(b) Dierdre.
(c) Siobhan.
(d) Danu.

13. In what century does How the Irish Saved Civilization begin?
(a) Fifth C.E.
(b) Eleventh C.E.
(c) Fifth B.C.
(d) Eleventh B.C.

14. Which class and nationality of people considered the Irish "incapable of civilization?"
(a) Uneducated Englishmen.
(b) Educated Englishmen.
(c) Uneducated Americans.
(d) Educated Americans.

15. Which group raids Britain in the fifth century?
(a) Celts.
(b) Anglo-Saxons.
(c) Normans.
(d) Huns.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Gratian's co-regent when he succeeds Valentinian in 375 A.D.?

2. What type of evidence backs the Irish foundation myth?

3. Who were the "white chimpanzees?"

4. How does How the Irish Saved Civilization describe modern English and Americans?

5. Who was Charles Kingsley?

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