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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which university is historian Anthony Grafton affiliated with?
(a) Harvard.
(b) Princeton.
(c) Cambridge.
(d) Oxford.

2. These people loot Europe and burn books.
(a) English.
(b) Romans.
(c) Irish.
(d) Barbarians.

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

4. What happens to Augustine when, after reading the works of Saul of Tarsus, he realized that Plato's views on truth were wrong?
(a) He died.
(b) He suffered a nervous breakdown.
(c) He joined the barbarians.
(d) He went out of business.

5. What ends Ausonius' career?
(a) Gratian's murder.
(b) Valentinian I's murder.
(c) Valentinian II's murder.
(d) A plagiarism scandal.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year is Rome overtaken?

2. What is the name of the barbarian who besieges Rome?

3. How many years after this first encounter did St. Augustine blame paganism for the problems his city was having with barbarians?

4. What is the modern-day name of the country from which the barbarians that attacked and eventually conquered Rome came?

5. Who gave this report about American universities?

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