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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what year is Rome overtaken?
(a) 476 B.C.E.
(b) 410 B.C.E.
(c) 410 C.E.
(d) 476 C.E.

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

3. Who wrote the fable about the man and the lion?
(a) The Brothers Grimm.
(b) Hans Christian Andersen.
(c) John Henry Newman.
(d) Aesop.

4. What is reported to be alive in American universities?
(a) Nasty stereotypes against Protestants.
(b) Nasty stereotypes against the Irish.
(c) Nasty stereotypes against Catholics.
(d) The mystery meat.

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. What is the name of the barbarian who besieges Rome?

2. Without Ireland, neither __________ nor ____________ would have occurred.

3. What city is the capital of Roman Africa?

4. What nationality is the young man who is enslaved as a shepherd by the Irish in 401 C.E.?

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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