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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What position is Ausonius given in the year 379 A.D.?
(a) Satrap.
(b) Consul.
(c) Prelate.
(d) Governor.

2. How does How the Irish Saved Civilization describe the Irish?
(a) Anglo-Saxon Catholics.
(b) Protestant Anglo-Saxons.
(c) Celtic Catholics.
(d) Celtic Protestants.

3. What is the name of the barbarian who besieges Rome?
(a) Alaric.
(b) Attila.
(c) Genghis Khan.
(d) Beowulf.

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

5. Which groups plunder Italy in the fifth century?
(a) Mongols and Japanese.
(b) Anglo-Saxons and Normans.
(c) Vandals and Visigoths.
(d) Goths and Huns.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the Irish renowned as during the fifth century?

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

3. Who blamed the Christian virtues that softened Rome for its fall?

4. What organization has its beginnings during the fall of the Roman empire?

5. Whose student is Plato?

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