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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What city is the capital of Roman Africa?
(a) Johannesburg.
(b) Carthage.
(c) Lagos.
(d) Hippo.

2. What position is Ausonius given in the year 375 A.D.?
(a) Co-regent.
(b) Chief of Staff.
(c) Proconsul.
(d) Prelate.

3. What book moves young Augustine to tears?
(a) Iliad.
(b) Aeneid.
(c) Pahedrus.
(d) Odyssey.

4. Which university is historian Anthony Grafton affiliated with?
(a) Oxford.
(b) Cambridge.
(c) Princeton.
(d) Harvard.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In what era were these "white chimpanzees" written of?

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

3. What nationality was Disraeli?

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

5. When Augustine founds his semi-monastic community in Milan, what is its goal?

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