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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. Whose student is Plato?
2. What practice that, in our society is illegal, exists and is considered acceptable in pre-Christian Ireland?
3. What Greek statue shows how Celtic warriors dressed for battle?
4. In what year is Rome overtaken?
5. How were stories like Tain Bo Cuailnge transmitted in Ireland prior to the sixth century CE?
Short Essay Questions
1. According to the author of How the Irish Saved Civilization, in what type of relationship are the Irish faithful and loyal? In what type of relationship are they not necessarily?
2. What do Celtic warriors wear into battle?
3. During what period did Charles Kingsley describe famine-stricken Irish as "white chimpanzees" dying of hunger?
4. Why were the barbarians seeking to migrate into Rome?
5. What legendary Irish creatures did the aborigines who inhabited Ireland when the Celts arrived eventually become?
6. How are the aborigines who inhabited Ireland when the Celts reached it described?
7. In the Irish epic Tain Bo Cuailnge, what was the subject of Queen Medb's and King Ailil's debate?
8. What regions did the Celts conquer between 600 and 400 B.C.E.?
9. What is key to the Pax Romana (the Roman Peace)?
10. 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?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Define and describe, supporting your statements from the text, Augustine's doctrines of original sin, grace, and the trinity.
Essay Topic 2
Using examples from the text, compare and contrast Plato's and Paul's views on the nature of the soul/the fight between flesh and spirit that so captured a young Augustine and eventually led to his conversion to Christianity.
Essay Topic 3
Using the text to support your arguments, explain and analyze the Irish copying and publishing process. How was it unique? How did it lend itself to assisting in the later re-civilization of Europe?
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