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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Gratian's co-regent when he succeeds Valentinian in 375 A.D.?
(a) Brutus.
(b) Nero.
(c) Valentinian II.
(d) Augustine.

2. Which two rivers separate barbarians from the Roman Empire?
(a) The Rhine and the Danube.
(b) The Danube and the Volga.
(c) The Volga and the Thames.
(d) The Volga and the Rhine.

3. What are the last surviving Celtic living languages today?
(a) Cornish and Welsh.
(b) Welsh and Gaelic.
(c) Irish and Scots Gaelic.
(d) Turkish and French.

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

5. What two genres does Augustine of Hippo's memoir begin?
(a) Biography and historical fiction.
(b) Autobiography and psychological fiction.
(c) Self-help and science fiction.
(d) Autobiography and self-help.

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

7. What vitally important Irish virtue is NOT named on the "Irish Catholic Martin Luther King's" tombstone?
(a) Generosity.
(b) Bravery.
(c) Loyalty.
(d) Handsomeness.

8. When the barbarians invade Rome, how many people die?
(a) 20,000 women, not counting men and children.
(b) 20,000 men, women, and children.
(c) 20,000 children, not counting men and women.
(d) 20,000 men, not counting women and children.

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

10. To which poets is Ausonius of Bordeaux compared?
(a) Homer and Virgil.
(b) Virgil and Cicero.
(c) Robert Frost and Virgil.
(d) Petrarch and Cicero.

11. What type of evidence backs the Irish foundation myth?
(a) Geological.
(b) Historical.
(c) None.
(d) Archaeological.

12. How many people was Cuchulainn able to reportedly kill in three passes during one battle?
(a) As many as the sands on the shore.
(b) Innumerable; but it is known that the dead were six deep in a vast circle.
(c) 130 kings and innumerable rabble.
(d) Innumerable kings and 130 rabble.

13. In Rome, what occupation was called the "class of worms?"
(a) Tax collectors.
(b) Slaves.
(c) Professors.
(d) Soldiers.

14. Which class and nationality of people considered the Irish "incapable of civilization?"
(a) Uneducated Englishmen.
(b) Educated Americans.
(c) Educated Englishmen.
(d) Uneducated Americans.

15. How were stories like Tain Bo Cuailnge transmitted in Ireland prior to the sixth century CE?
(a) Through dance.
(b) Through oral tradition.
(c) Through the written word.
(d) Through religion.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who, according to Tain Bo Cuailnge, teaches Cuchulainn to fight?

2. When Queen Medb's messenger finds a replacement bull, what are the terms under which its owner agrees to lend it to her?

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

4. The classic Christian doctrines of original sin, grace, and the trinity are first articulated by this person.

5. What is the first religion with which Augustine experiments?

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