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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What ends Ausonius' career?
(a) A plagiarism scandal.
(b) Valentinian II's murder.
(c) Gratian's murder.
(d) Valentinian I's murder.

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

3. Thanks to the barbarian invasions, the spirit of _________________ as a living entity is irrevocably lost.
(a) The Roman pantheon.
(b) The feudal system.
(c) Hellenistic culture.
(d) Classical civilization.

4. In what year does the last Western emperor die?
(a) 410 C.E.
(b) 476 C.E.
(c) 410 B.C.E.
(d) 476 B.C.E.

5. When Augustine founds his semi-monastic community in Milan, what is its goal?
(a) Attaining world peace.
(b) Attaining truth through Plato and his commentators.
(c) Restoring the Roman empire.
(d) Educating the barbarians.

Short Answer Questions

1. What Saxon hero is shown with the Celtic virtues of loyalty, courage, and generosity?

2. What was fifth-century Rome considered?

3. Where did Patrick establish his headquarters?

4. Like the Jews earlier, the Irish see literacy as a __________________ act.

5. What is reported to be alive in American universities?

(see the answer key)

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