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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the modern-day name of the country from which the barbarians that attacked and eventually conquered Rome came?
(a) Ireland.
(b) Denmark.
(c) Britain.
(d) Germany.

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

3. Romans think the army bespeaks __________.
(a) Socialism.
(b) Monarchy.
(c) Democracy.
(d) Dictatorship.

4. The author of How the Irish Saved Civilization vows to give hearing to all "without ______."
(a) Judging.
(b) Favoritism.
(c) Disparagement.
(d) Prejudice.

5. When the barbarians invade Rome, how many people die?
(a) 20,000 children, not counting men and women.
(b) 20,000 men, not counting women and children.
(c) 20,000 men, women, and children.
(d) 20,000 women, not counting men and children.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Who were the "white chimpanzees?"

4. What subject does Ausonius teach at the University of Bordeaux?

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

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