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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what era were these "white chimpanzees" written of?
(a) Renaissance Europe.
(b) Medieval England.
(c) Victorian England.
(d) Prehistoric Rome.

2. In what century does How the Irish Saved Civilization begin?
(a) Eleventh C.E.
(b) Fifth C.E.
(c) Eleventh B.C.
(d) Fifth B.C.

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

4. These people loot Europe and burn books.
(a) Irish.
(b) Barbarians.
(c) Romans.
(d) English.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which university is historian Anthony Grafton affiliated with?

2. The author of How the Irish Saved Civilization vows to give hearing to all "without ______."

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

4. On what date does Rome first encounter barbarians?

5. How many years after this first encounter did St. Augustine blame paganism for the problems his city was having with barbarians?

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