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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) Celtic Protestants.
(c) Celtic Catholics.
(d) Anglo-Saxon Catholics.

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

3. Who gave this report about American universities?
(a) Henry Grafton.
(b) John Henry Newman.
(c) Mark Twain.
(d) Charles Kingsley.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which two rivers separate barbarians from the Roman Empire?

2. Which class and nationality of people considered the Irish "incapable of civilization?"

3. What position is Ausonius given in the year 375 A.D.?

4. Which prophecy refers to the Roman Empire's total lifespan?

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

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