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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who blamed the Christian virtues that softened Rome for its fall?
(a) Edward Gibbons.
(b) Charles Kingsley.
(c) Petrarch.
(d) Emperor Valentinian.

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

4. In which book did St. Augustine blame paganism for Rome's troubles with barbarians?
(a) The City of God.
(b) How The Irish Saved Civilization.
(c) Confessions.
(d) The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire.

5. To which poets is Ausonius of Bordeaux compared?
(a) Virgil and Cicero.
(b) Petrarch and Cicero.
(c) Homer and Virgil.
(d) Robert Frost and Virgil.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does How the Irish Saved Civilization describe the Irish?

2. The fable of the man and the lion illustrates how who tells a story affects the _____________.

3. Who wrote of "white chimpanzees" dying of hunger?

4. Without Ireland, neither __________ nor ____________ would have occurred.

5. In which mountain range do the two rivers that separate the barbarians from the Roman Empire originate?

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