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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In which mountain range do the two rivers that separate the barbarians from the Roman Empire originate?
(a) Alps.
(b) Caucasus.
(c) Urals.
(d) Balkans.

2. Who was Charles Kingsley?
(a) A politician.
(b) An evangelist.
(c) A historian.
(d) A professor.

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

4. Why does Ausonius go to Emperor Valentinian's court?
(a) To become the emperor's proconsul.
(b) To tutor the emperor.
(c) To tutor the emperor's son, Gratian.
(d) To tutor the emperor's son, Augustine.

5. Who is the author of How the Irish Saved Civilization?
(a) Albert Payson Terhune.
(b) Mark Twain.
(c) Thomas Cahill.
(d) Charles Dickens.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which university is historian Anthony Grafton affiliated with?

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

3. Machiavelli _________ blamed the barbarians for Rome's fall.

4. In what century does How the Irish Saved Civilization begin?

5. Who gave this report about American universities?

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