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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who do the "lions" in the fable symbolize to the author?
(a) The Romans.
(b) The barbarians.
(c) The Irish.
(d) The English.

2. Where was the city of Hippo, where St. Augustine lived?
(a) South Africa.
(b) Zimbabwe.
(c) North Africa.
(d) Ghana.

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

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

5. What subject does Ausonius teach at the University of Bordeaux?
(a) Latin.
(b) History.
(c) Logic.
(d) Poetry.

Short Answer Questions

1. Without Ireland, neither __________ nor ____________ would have occurred.

2. The author of How the Irish Saved Civilization vows to give hearing to all "without ______."

3. Who wrote of "white chimpanzees" dying of hunger?

4. Who were the "white chimpanzees?"

5. These people loot Europe and burn books.

(see the answer key)

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