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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. Who is nicknamed the "Irish Catholic Martin Luther King?"
(a) St. Patrick.
(b) Michael Flatley.
(c) Bono.
(d) Daniel O'Connell.

2. These people preserved Europe's Greco-Roman and Judaeo-Christian heritage.
(a) Irish.
(b) Vikings.
(c) Romans.
(d) Gauls.

3. What type of culture is Ireland described as in the opening pages of this book?
(a) Space Age.
(b) Industrial Age.
(c) Stone Age.
(d) Iron Age.

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

5. How were stories like Tain Bo Cuailnge transmitted in Ireland prior to the sixth century CE?
(a) Through the written word.
(b) Through oral tradition.
(c) Through religion.
(d) Through dance.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which European class do the barbarians destroy?

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

3. Which group raids Britain in the fifth century?

4. In which book did St. Augustine blame paganism for Rome's troubles with barbarians?

5. Whose student is Plato?

Short Essay Questions

1. On December 31, 401, when the Roman legions and the barbarians first face each other in battle, how many years remain in the twelve centuries the Roman Empire is prophesied to last?

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

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

4. Why doesn't Augustine see much of the destruction the barbarians have caused?

5. What crime in post-imperial Rome becomes the stuff of fairy tales?

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

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

8. What, instead of the popular belief that Roman gods were punishing Rome with barbarians in order to take out their anger upon Romans who converted to Christianity, does St. Augustine claim is the cause of the barbarian siege of Rome?

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

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

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