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- The facility with which Attila had penetrated into the heart of
- Gaul may be ascribed to his insidious policy as well as to the terror
- of his arms. His public declarations were skilfully mitigated by his
- private assurances; he alternately soothed and threatened the Romans
- and the Goths; and the courts of Ravenna and Toulouse, mutually
- suspicious of each other's intentions, beheld with supine indifference
- the approach of their common enemy.
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- 1. The "courts of Ravenna and Toulouse" refer to:
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- A. judges and juries
- B. the governments of Rome and the Goths
- C. Attila's followers
- D. the heart of Gaul
- E. Attila's army
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- Correct.
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- (B) We can infer that "courts" refers to the governments of the Romans
- and Goths.
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- 2. Attila's "insidious policy" was:
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- A. supine indifference
- B. private assurances coupled with public threats
- C. ascribed to terror of arms
- D. the threat of conquest
- E. mutual suspicion
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- B
- Correct.
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- (B) Attila's insidious policy was to say opposite things in public and
- private.
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- B
- Aetius was the sole guardian of the public safety; but his wisest
- were embarrassed by a faction which infected the Imperial palace: the
- youth of Italy trembled at the sound of the trumpet; and the barbarians,
- who from fear or affection were inclined to the cause of Attila,
- awaited with doubtful and venal faith the event of the war.
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- 1. "The youth of Italy trembled at the sound of the trumpet" suggests:
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- A. a special kind of dance that was then popular
- B. a dislike for trumpet music
- C. Attila's followers were youthful
- D. the fear of war
- E. the fear of music
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- Correct.
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- (D) The trumpet was a call to war, and the youth of Italy feared it.
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- 2. "Venal" faith suggests that the barbarians were:
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- A. mercenary, corrupt, open to bribery
- B. religious, devout, observant
- C. skeptical, cynical, obdurate
- D. enthusiastic, optimistic, energetic
- E. lazy, slothful, affectionate
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- C
- Correct.
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- C
- (A) "Venal" means "mercenary, open to bribery and corruption."
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- The patrician passed the Alps at the head of some troops whose
- strength and numbers scarcely deserved the name of an army. But on
- his arrival at Arles or Lyons he was confounded by the intelligence
- that the Visigoths, refusing to embrace the defense of Gaul, had
- determined to expect within their own territories the formidable
- invader whom they professed to despise.
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- 1. "Had determined to expect" implies the Visigoths:
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- A. had been warned by spies
- B. had determined to fight the invader
- C. meant to launch an ambush
- D. had decided to accept the invader without a fight
- E. despised the invader
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- D
- Correct.
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- D
- (D) "Expect" implies the Visigoths would accept rather than repel the
- invader.
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- D
- He represented to Theodoric that an ambitious conqueror who
- aspired to the dominion of the earth could be resisted only by the
- firm and unanimous alliance of the powers who he laboured to oppress.
- The lively eloquence inflamed the Gothic warriors by the description
- of the injuries which their ancestors had suffered from the Huns.
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- 1. This passage, taken with the prior ones, suggests that:
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- A. The Romans and the Goths were traditional enemies.
- B. The Huns had previously persecuted the Romans.
- C. The Romans had previously persecuted the Huns.
- D. The Goths had previously persecuted the Huns.
- E. The Huns had previously persecuted the Goths.
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- E
- Correct.
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- (E) The ancestors of the Gothic warriors had suffered injuries from the
- Huns.
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- E
- He strenuously urged that it was the duty of every Christian to
- save from sacrilegious violation the churches of God and the relics of
- the saints; that it was the interest of every barbarian who had acquired
- a settlement in Gaul to defend the fields and vineyards, which were
- cultivated for his use, against the desolation of the Scythian shepherds.
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- 1. The passage suggests:
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- A. Residents of Gaul included both Christians and non-Christians.
- B. Gaul was occupied by Scythian shepherds.
- C. Non-Christian Goths were Scythians.
- D. An appeal to a barbarian's sense of duty and a Christian's sense
- of self-interest was employed.
- E. All Gaul was divided into three parts.
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- F
- Correct.
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- (A) In this passage, "barbarian" is synonymous with non-Christian.
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