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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Without Ireland, neither __________ nor ____________ would have occurred.
(a) Enlightenment; Science.
(b) Evolution; Medicine.
(c) Renaissance; Enlightenment.
(d) Renaissance; Evolution.

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

4. What city is the capital of Roman Africa?
(a) Johannesburg.
(b) Carthage.
(c) Hippo.
(d) Lagos.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why does Ausonius go to Emperor Valentinian's court?

3. Which European class do the barbarians destroy?

4. After Rome is conquered, which Italian city temporarily became the capital?

5. Who is the author of How the Irish Saved Civilization?

(see the answer key)

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