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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. These people preserved Europe's Greco-Roman and Judaeo-Christian heritage.
2. What was fifth-century Rome considered?
3. The fable of the man and the lion illustrates how who tells a story affects the _____________.
4. When Augustine founds his semi-monastic community in Milan, what is its goal?
5. In Rome, what occupation was called the "class of worms?"
Short Essay Questions
1. What is key to the Pax Romana (the Roman Peace)?
2. Why do local lords loan money to tax collectors?
3. What careers did Patricius' father and grandfather hold?
4. 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?
5. 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?
6. How are the aborigines who inhabited Ireland when the Celts reached it described?
7. What do Celtic warriors wear into battle?
8. During what period did Charles Kingsley describe famine-stricken Irish as "white chimpanzees" dying of hunger?
9. What regions did the Celts conquer between 600 and 400 B.C.E.?
10. What crime in post-imperial Rome leads to the foundation of what we know today as the Mafia?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Chapter 1 also states that the barbarians invaded Rome because they were transitioning from a hunter-gatherer society to an agricultural society. Please write an essay that compares and contrasts the characteristics of a hunter-gatherer society with those of an agricultural society.
Essay Topic 2
Demonstrate and explain, using the text to support your statements, how Patrick invoked the elements to his aid as the hand of a well-meaning God.
Essay Topic 3
Explain and demonstrate the characteristics of the "uniquely de-Romanized Christianity" that Patrick brought to Ireland, comparing and contrasting it to the Roman Christianity espoused by Augustine of Hippo that eventually came into conflict with Irish Christianity when Augustine of Canterbury was stationed in England. Use the text to support your arguments.
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