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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does How the Irish Saved Civilization describe modern English and Americans?
(a) Protestant Anglo-Saxons.
(b) Celtic Catholics.
(c) Celtic Protestants.
(d) Anglo-Saxon Catholics.

2. After Rome is conquered, which Italian city temporarily became the capital?
(a) Florence.
(b) Venice.
(c) Milan.
(d) Ravenna.

3. What are annually renewable in Ireland on Feb. 1, the feast of Imbolc, as late as the twelfth century?
(a) Employment contracts.
(b) Friendships.
(c) Marriages.
(d) Mortgages.

4. What is the youthful sin that Patrick confessed to the night before his ordination most likely believed to be?
(a) The murder of a slave or servant.
(b) Theft or arson.
(c) The murder of his master.
(d) Sexual immorality.

5. What language does Patricius speak at home?
(a) Welsh.
(b) Latin.
(c) Gaelic.
(d) Saxon.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the deal between Queen Medb and the bull's owner fall through?

2. According to the author of How the Irish Saved Civilization, why do British Christians not even consider Irish Christians human beings?

3. What nationality is the young man who is enslaved as a shepherd by the Irish in 401 C.E.?

4. What are two artifacts that represent the Irish transition from paganism to Christianity?

5. Where was the city of Hippo, where St. Augustine lived?

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