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

2. 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.?
(a) Patrick.
(b) Patricius.
(c) Petrarch.
(d) Patrocles.

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

4. How does How the Irish Saved Civilization describe modern English and Americans?
(a) Anglo-Saxon Catholics.
(b) Celtic Catholics.
(c) Celtic Protestants.
(d) Protestant Anglo-Saxons.

5. In Tain Bo Cuailnge, why does Queen Medb's bull defect to King Ailil?
(a) Its mate is owned by King Ailil.
(b) It refuses to be led by a woman.
(c) It doesn't want to be slaughtered.
(d) It refuses to be led by a man.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the Irish renowned as during the fifth century?

2. What nationality was Disraeli?

3. Who is Gratian's co-regent when he succeeds Valentinian in 375 A.D.?

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

5. Who were the "white chimpanzees?"

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What do Celtic warriors wear into battle?

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

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

8. What would cause a tax collector to seek a loan from a lord, and what would cause the collector to default?

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

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

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