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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Gratian's co-regent when he succeeds Valentinian in 375 A.D.?
(a) Augustine.
(b) Valentinian II.
(c) Nero.
(d) Brutus.

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

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

4. What are the names of the Irish war goddesses?
(a) Ares and Mercury.
(b) Badb and Medb.
(c) Nemain and Badb.
(d) Danu and Medb.

5. What is Tain Bo Cuailnge?
(a) A Roman poetry epic.
(b) An Irish prose epic.
(c) An Irish poetry epic.
(d) A Roman prose epic.

Short Answer Questions

1. What subject does Ausonius teach at the University of Bordeaux?

2. Who blamed the Christian virtues that softened Rome for its fall?

3. What controls Irish society prior to its Christianization?

4. What did the autopsy done on Lindow Man find that his last meal consisted of?

5. In Rome, what occupation was called the "class of worms?"

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