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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What ends Ausonius' career?
(a) Valentinian I's murder.
(b) A plagiarism scandal.
(c) Valentinian II's murder.
(d) Gratian's murder.

2. Which two rivers separate barbarians from the Roman Empire?
(a) The Rhine and the Danube.
(b) The Volga and the Thames.
(c) The Danube and the Volga.
(d) The Volga and the Rhine.

3. To which poets is Ausonius of Bordeaux compared?
(a) Homer and Virgil.
(b) Virgil and Cicero.
(c) Petrarch and Cicero.
(d) Robert Frost and Virgil.

4. According to the author of How the Irish Saved Civilization, leisure is necessary for learning to ______________.
(a) Play.
(b) Relax.
(c) Thrive.
(d) Work.

5. Who was Charles Kingsley?
(a) A politician.
(b) An evangelist.
(c) A historian.
(d) A professor.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who were the "white chimpanzees?"

2. Which groups plunder Italy in the fifth century?

3. The classic Christian doctrines of original sin, grace, and the trinity are first articulated by this person.

4. Machiavelli _________ blamed the barbarians for Rome's fall.

5. What nationality is the young man who is enslaved as a shepherd by the Irish in 401 C.E.?

(see the answer key)

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