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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. In which book did St. Augustine blame paganism for Rome's troubles with barbarians?
(a) The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire.
(b) The City of God.
(c) How The Irish Saved Civilization.
(d) Confessions.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What category of people is this book about?

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

3. Who blamed the Christian virtues that softened Rome for its fall?

4. What happens to Augustine when, after reading the works of Saul of Tarsus, he realized that Plato's views on truth were wrong?

5. When Augustine founds his semi-monastic community in Milan, what is its goal?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why has the story of Ireland's re-education of Europe gone untold, according to the author?

2. What careers did Patricius' father and grandfather hold?

3. What is key to the Pax Romana (the Roman Peace)?

4. What crime in post-imperial Rome leads to the foundation of what we know today as the Mafia?

5. What regions did the Celts conquer between 600 and 400 B.C.E.?

6. As the Roman Empire continues to decline, what is the concept of "what is being done" replaced by?

7. In the Irish epic Tain Bo Cuailnge, what was the subject of Queen Medb's and King Ailil's debate?

8. Who is the most dominating character in Tain Bo Cuailnge?

9. What legendary Irish creatures did the aborigines who inhabited Ireland when the Celts arrived eventually become?

10. Why do local lords loan money to tax collectors?

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