Delphi’s Oracular History
Author
Lorelei Aristophanes
1. The Vandals were assumed to have crossed the Baltic into what is now Poland sometime in what century?
A)
2nd century BCE
B)
2nd century CE
C)
1st century CE
D)
3rd century CE
2. Who records their presence between the Oder and Vistula rivers in Germania by 98 CE?
A)
Pliny the Younger
B)
Suetonius
C)
Tacitus
D)
Statius
3. This Roman emperor found himself obliged to protect the middle course of the Danube against them and they then settled in western Dacia and Pannonia.
A)
Marcus Aurelius
B)
Aurelian
C)
Hadrian
D)
Trajan
4. It was under the reign of this king when they started building a fleet to plunder the Mediterranean.
A)
Geiseric
B)
Godigisel
C)
Gunderic
D)
Huneric
5. Which was not conquered by the Kingdom of the Vandals?
A)
Kenipolis
B)
Sicily
C)
Sardinia
D)
Balearic Islands
6. This chronicler offers the only 5th century report that Pope Leo received Geiseric and asked him to abstain from murder and the destruction of the city of Rome by fire.
A)
Egeria
B)
Julius Nepos
C)
St. Fidelis of Sigmaringen
D)
Prosper of Aquitaine
7. This emperor declared war on the Vandals which heralded the beginning of the end of the Kingdom of the Vandals.
A)
Zeno
B)
Marcius
C)
Justinian
D)
Arcadius
8. King Gunderic called assumed this title:
A)
King of the Vandals and the Alans
B)
King of the Vandals and the Sueves
C)
King of the Vandals and the Goths
D)
King of the Vandals and the Huns
9. This king of the Vandals was claimed to have been the son of a slave
A)
Sigisvult
B)
Gunderic
C)
Huneric
D)
Geiseric
10. The freezing of this river allowed the Vandals to move into Gaul on December 31st
A)
Danube
B)
Rhine
C)
Oder
D)
Moselle