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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What causes Augustine to start reading the Bible?
(a) A child's voice chanting, "take, read."
(b) A vision of Christ crucified.
(c) His study of Paul's writings.
(d) A post-resurrection appearance to Augustine by Jesus Himself.

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

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

6. On what date does Rome first encounter barbarians?
(a) December 31, 406 C.E.
(b) December 4, 316 C.E.
(c) December 31, 406 B.C.
(d) December 4, 316 B.C.

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

8. What nationality was Disraeli?
(a) English.
(b) Irish.
(c) Israeli.
(d) Scottish.

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

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

11. What book moves young Augustine to tears?
(a) Iliad.
(b) Pahedrus.
(c) Aeneid.
(d) Odyssey.

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

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

14. Who was Charles Kingsley?
(a) An evangelist.
(b) A politician.
(c) A professor.
(d) A historian.

15. What is reported to be alive in American universities?
(a) Nasty stereotypes against Protestants.
(b) The mystery meat.
(c) Nasty stereotypes against the Irish.
(d) Nasty stereotypes against Catholics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What subject does Ausonius teach at the University of Bordeaux?

2. Where was the city of Hippo, where St. Augustine lived?

3. After Rome is conquered, which Italian city temporarily became the capital?

4. What practice that, in our society is illegal, exists and is considered acceptable in pre-Christian Ireland?

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

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