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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What subject does Ausonius teach at the University of Bordeaux?
(a) Poetry.
(b) Logic.
(c) History.
(d) Latin.

2. Which river separated the Roman legions from the barbarian hordes that were attacking them?
(a) The Rhine.
(b) The Danube.
(c) The Thames.
(d) The Volga.

3. With whom does the author hint he sides?
(a) The men.
(b) The mice.
(c) The lions.
(d) The lambs.

4. How does How the Irish Saved Civilization describe the Irish?
(a) Protestant Anglo-Saxons.
(b) Celtic Protestants.
(c) Celtic Catholics.
(d) Anglo-Saxon Catholics.

5. Where was the city of Hippo, where St. Augustine lived?
(a) Ghana.
(b) Zimbabwe.
(c) North Africa.
(d) South Africa.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. These people preserved Europe's Greco-Roman and Judaeo-Christian heritage.

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

5. When the barbarians invade Rome, how many people die?

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