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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What type of culture is Ireland described as in the opening pages of this book?
(a) Space Age.
(b) Industrial Age.
(c) Stone Age.
(d) Iron Age.

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

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

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

5. How does How the Irish Saved Civilization describe modern English and Americans?
(a) Protestant Anglo-Saxons.
(b) Celtic Protestants.
(c) Celtic Catholics.
(d) Anglo-Saxon Catholics.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. To which poets is Ausonius of Bordeaux compared?

3. The author of How the Irish Saved Civilization vows to give hearing to all "without ______."

4. What nickname is given to the people who reintroduced culture to medieval Europe?

5. Who was Charles Kingsley?

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