One of the statements below about the end of Western Rome and Byzantium is false. Which one is it?
The eastern half of the Roman Empire went on for centuries after Roman rule ended in the western provinces.
Later historians gave the surviving eastern empire the name Byzantine.
The people of the eastern empire went on calling themselves Romans.
The eastern empire ended at the same moment as Roman rule in the west, so no Roman state survived.✓Correct answer
Explanation
Roman government did not stop everywhere at once: the eastern half kept its emperor, its army, its taxes and its administration for many centuries after the western provinces passed to new rulers, so a claim of simultaneous collapse is the false one here. The statement about a name supplied by later historians is true, and it catches many readers out, because that label really was applied afterwards and was never used by the people it describes.