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

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

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

4. What was the Romans' reaction to Celtic warriors?
(a) Disgust.
(b) Shock.
(c) Respect.
(d) Envy.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What controls Irish society prior to its Christianization?

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

3. What is Tain Bo Cuailnge?

4. What is the name of Mil's family poet?

5. What organization has its beginnings during the fall of the Roman empire?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What analogy is used to explain the concept of the Roman legions being overrun by barbarians?

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

4. What are the Irish doing during the time the barbarians are conquering Europe?

5. What dichotomy that troubled Augustine was addressed by Manicheism, Plato, and Saul of Tarsus?

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

7. How are the aborigines who inhabited Ireland when the Celts reached it described?

8. Why has Ireland's contributions to civilization been overlooked?

9. When the landlords redeem their slaves, what do the men and women become?

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

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