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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. When Augustine founds his semi-monastic community in Milan, what is its goal?
(a) Attaining truth through Plato and his commentators.
(b) Attaining world peace.
(c) Educating the barbarians.
(d) Restoring the Roman empire.

2. What does Tain Bo Cuailnge mean in English?
(a) How the Irish Saved Civilization.
(b) The City of God.
(c) The Cattle Raid of Cooley.
(d) The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire.

3. After Rome is conquered, which Italian city temporarily became the capital?
(a) Venice.
(b) Florence.
(c) Ravenna.
(d) Milan.

4. What did Christian monks teach the Irish about Mil?
(a) He is a descendant of Japheth and a survivor of the Flood.
(b) He is a descendant of Sheth and a survivor of the Flood.
(c) He is a descendant of Noah and a survivor of the Flood.
(d) He is a descendant of Ham and a survivor of the Flood.

5. In what year does the last Western emperor die?
(a) 476 C.E.
(b) 410 B.C.E.
(c) 476 B.C.E.
(d) 410 C.E.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What controls Irish society prior to its Christianization?

3. What causes Augustine to start reading the Bible?

4. What is reported to be alive in American universities?

5. What is the first religion with which Augustine experiments?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why were the barbarians seeking to migrate into Rome?

2. What does Augustine discover about language?

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

4. As the Roman Empire continues to decline, what is the concept of "what is being done" replaced by?

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

6. What is the purpose of the "White Martyrs" who were trained by evangelists in Ireland?

7. What do Celtic warriors wear into battle?

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

9. Why has Ireland's contributions to civilization been overlooked?

10. If these White Martyrs had not existed, what major advances in civilization would not have occurred?

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