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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Ireland's foundation myth, the sons of Mil reached Ireland from Spain and took Ireland from the "People of the Goddess _________."
(a) Dierdre.
(b) Danu.
(c) Anu.
(d) Siobhan.

2. In which mountain range do the two rivers that separate the barbarians from the Roman Empire originate?
(a) Caucasus.
(b) Balkans.
(c) Urals.
(d) Alps.

3. 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) Two.
(d) Twelve.

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

5. Who blamed the Christian virtues that softened Rome for its fall?
(a) Edward Gibbons.
(b) Petrarch.
(c) Emperor Valentinian.
(d) Charles Kingsley.

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

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

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

9. What subject does Ausonius teach at the University of Bordeaux?
(a) Poetry.
(b) History.
(c) Latin.
(d) Logic.

10. These people loot Europe and burn books.
(a) English.
(b) Romans.
(c) Barbarians.
(d) Irish.

11. Who, according to Tain Bo Cuailnge, teaches Cuchulainn to fight?
(a) His father.
(b) The goddess Danu herself.
(c) Three women.
(d) Queen Medb.

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

13. What happens to Augustine after he begins reading the Bible?
(a) He becomes pope.
(b) He regains his sanity.
(c) He accepts baptism.
(d) He is crucified.

14. Why does Ausonius go to Emperor Valentinian's court?
(a) To become the emperor's proconsul.
(b) To tutor the emperor's son, Gratian.
(c) To tutor the emperor's son, Augustine.
(d) To tutor the emperor.

15. Who were the "white chimpanzees?"
(a) People of mixed race.
(b) Irish.
(c) Albino chimpanzees.
(d) Germans.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which European class do the barbarians destroy?

3. In Rome, what occupation was called the "class of worms?"

4. At the time of his capture, what is the name of the young man enslaved as a shepherd by the Irish in 401 C.E.?

5. How many people was Cuchulainn able to reportedly kill in three passes during one battle?

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