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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which prophecy refers to the Roman Empire's total lifespan?
(a) The Prophecy of Rome.
(b) The Prophecy of the Twelve Eagles.
(c) The Prophecy of Apollo.
(d) The Prophecy of Romulus and Remus.

2. To which ethnic grouping do the Irish belong?
(a) Normans.
(b) Celts.
(c) Welsh.
(d) Saxons.

3. In what era were these "white chimpanzees" written of?
(a) Medieval England.
(b) Prehistoric Rome.
(c) Renaissance Europe.
(d) Victorian England.

4. What is the name of Mil's family poet?
(a) Cuchulainn.
(b) Amhairghin.
(c) Kevin of Glendalough.
(d) O'Heailigh.

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

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

7. Romans think the army bespeaks __________.
(a) Socialism.
(b) Democracy.
(c) Monarchy.
(d) Dictatorship.

8. What does Tain Bo Cuailnge mean in English?
(a) The City of God.
(b) How the Irish Saved Civilization.
(c) The Cattle Raid of Cooley.
(d) The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire.

9. Without Ireland, neither __________ nor ____________ would have occurred.
(a) Evolution; Medicine.
(b) Renaissance; Enlightenment.
(c) Enlightenment; Science.
(d) Renaissance; Evolution.

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

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

12. After Rome is conquered, which Italian city temporarily became the capital?
(a) Venice.
(b) Milan.
(c) Florence.
(d) Ravenna.

13. 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.

14. Who is the author of How the Irish Saved Civilization?
(a) Mark Twain.
(b) Albert Payson Terhune.
(c) Thomas Cahill.
(d) Charles Dickens.

15. What happens to Augustine when, after reading the works of Saul of Tarsus, he realized that Plato's views on truth were wrong?
(a) He suffered a nervous breakdown.
(b) He went out of business.
(c) He joined the barbarians.
(d) He died.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of evidence backs the Irish foundation myth?

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

3. Which European class do the barbarians destroy?

4. Who wrote the fable about the man and the lion?

5. What Greek statue shows how Celtic warriors dressed for battle?

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