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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many years after this first encounter did St. Augustine blame paganism for the problems his city was having with barbarians?
(a) Seventy.
(b) Twenty.
(c) Twelve.
(d) Two.

2. Who gave this report about American universities?
(a) Mark Twain.
(b) Henry Grafton.
(c) John Henry Newman.
(d) Charles Kingsley.

3. Who wrote of "white chimpanzees" dying of hunger?
(a) Charles Kingsley.
(b) Anthony Grafton.
(c) Benjamin Disraeli.
(d) Thomas Cahill.

4. Which group raids Britain in the fifth century?
(a) Celts.
(b) Anglo-Saxons.
(c) Normans.
(d) Huns.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was Charles Kingsley?

2. Thanks to the barbarian invasions, the spirit of _________________ as a living entity is irrevocably lost.

3. What nationality was Disraeli?

4. How does How the Irish Saved Civilization describe modern English and Americans?

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

(see the answer key)

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