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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. What nickname is given to the people who reintroduced culture to medieval Europe?
(a) Irish Professors.
(b) Green Martyrs.
(c) Holy Rollers.
(d) White Martyrs.

2. What major theme concerning Augustine will be shown in later chapters to apply to Ireland as they themselves become Christian?
(a) Ireland has never heard of Augustine or his teachings.
(b) Ireland is familiar with Augustine and his teachings.
(c) Ireland accepts Augustine's teachings.
(d) Ireland rejects Augustine's teachings.

3. How does How the Irish Saved Civilization describe modern English and Americans?
(a) Celtic Catholics.
(b) Protestant Anglo-Saxons.
(c) Anglo-Saxon Catholics.
(d) Celtic Protestants.

4. Who gave this report about American universities?
(a) John Henry Newman.
(b) Charles Kingsley.
(c) Mark Twain.
(d) Henry Grafton.

5. In what era were these "white chimpanzees" written of?
(a) Victorian England.
(b) Prehistoric Rome.
(c) Medieval England.
(d) Renaissance Europe.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is reported to be alive in American universities?

2. Who do the "lions" in the fable symbolize to the author?

3. What did Petrarch blame for the Roman Empire's fall?

4. Which group raids Britain in the fifth century?

5. What two genres does Augustine of Hippo's memoir begin?

Short Essay Questions

1. What analogy is used to explain the concept of the Roman legions being overrun by barbarians?

2. What is the Irish transmission back to Europe of its Greco-Roman and Judaeo-Christian heritage called?

3. How are the aborigines who inhabited Ireland when the Celts reached it described?

4. As the Roman Empire continues to decline, what is the concept of "what is being done" replaced by?

5. Who does the author say have controlled what is said about the Irish Catholic past and overlooked Ireland's contributions to civilization?

6. Why has Ireland's contributions to civilization been overlooked?

7. What regions did the Celts conquer between 600 and 400 B.C.E.?

8. Why has the story of Ireland's re-education of Europe gone untold, according to the author?

9. What is the purpose of the "White Martyrs" who were trained by evangelists in Ireland?

10. What crime in post-imperial Rome leads to the foundation of what we know today as the Mafia?

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