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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 the Irish?
(a) Anglo-Saxon Catholics.
(b) Protestant Anglo-Saxons.
(c) Celtic Catholics.
(d) Celtic Protestants.

2. Which two rivers separate barbarians from the Roman Empire?
(a) The Danube and the Volga.
(b) The Volga and the Thames.
(c) The Rhine and the Danube.
(d) The Volga and the Rhine.

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

4. What nationality was Disraeli?
(a) Israeli.
(b) Scottish.
(c) Irish.
(d) English.

5. Who were the "white chimpanzees?"
(a) Germans.
(b) Albino chimpanzees.
(c) People of mixed race.
(d) Irish.

Short Answer Questions

1. When the barbarians invade Rome, how many people die?

2. How does How the Irish Saved Civilization describe modern English and Americans?

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

4. In which book did St. Augustine blame paganism for Rome's troubles with barbarians?

5. Who is Gratian's co-regent when he succeeds Valentinian in 375 A.D.?

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