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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In which book did St. Augustine blame paganism for Rome's troubles with barbarians?
(a) Confessions.
(b) The City of God.
(c) How The Irish Saved Civilization.
(d) The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire.

2. Whose student is Plato?
(a) Socrates.
(b) Plato.
(c) Aristotle.
(d) Homer.

3. What nationality is the young man who is enslaved as a shepherd by the Irish in 401 C.E.?
(a) Irish.
(b) Roman.
(c) German.
(d) Briton.

4. What type of culture is Ireland described as in the opening pages of this book?
(a) Iron Age.
(b) Stone Age.
(c) Industrial Age.
(d) Space Age.

5. What is the title of Augustine of Hippo's memoir?
(a) Confessions.
(b) Aenid.
(c) City of God.
(d) Book of Kells.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. What two genres does Augustine of Hippo's memoir begin?

5. Which university is historian Anthony Grafton affiliated with?

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