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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When the barbarians invade Rome, how many people die?
(a) 20,000 women, not counting men and children.
(b) 20,000 men, not counting women and children.
(c) 20,000 men, women, and children.
(d) 20,000 children, not counting men and women.

2. Why does Ausonius go to Emperor Valentinian's court?
(a) To become the emperor's proconsul.
(b) To tutor the emperor.
(c) To tutor the emperor's son, Gratian.
(d) To tutor the emperor's son, Augustine.

3. In what year does the last Western emperor die?
(a) 410 C.E.
(b) 476 C.E.
(c) 410 B.C.E.
(d) 476 B.C.E.

4. How many years after this first encounter did St. Augustine blame paganism for the problems his city was having with barbarians?
(a) Seventy.
(b) Two.
(c) Twelve.
(d) Twenty.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The classic Christian doctrines of original sin, grace, and the trinity are first articulated by this person.

3. Who wrote the fable about the man and the lion?

4. At the time of his capture, what is the name of the young man enslaved as a shepherd by the Irish in 401 C.E.?

5. What happens to Augustine after he begins reading the Bible?

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