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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How many years after this first encounter did St. Augustine blame paganism for the problems his city was having with barbarians?
(a) Twenty.
(b) Twelve.
(c) Seventy.
(d) Two.

3. The author of How the Irish Saved Civilization vows to give hearing to all "without ______."
(a) Judging.
(b) Prejudice.
(c) Disparagement.
(d) Favoritism.

4. Which university is historian Anthony Grafton affiliated with?
(a) Oxford.
(b) Princeton.
(c) Harvard.
(d) Cambridge.

5. What are the Irish renowned as during the fifth century?
(a) Farmers.
(b) Scholars.
(c) Warriors.
(d) Sailors.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was fifth-century Rome considered?

2. Why does Ausonius go to Emperor Valentinian's court?

3. What is the name of the barbarian who besieges Rome?

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

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

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