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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Finding of the Bull | The Death of Forgemen.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator tell the reader at the end of "The Foretelling"?
(a) That the story will be lost forever if not spoken aloud.
(b) That the introduction was just a dream sequence.
(c) That the narrator was Medb's personal bodyguard.
(d) The introduction is over and the body of the story is next.

2. How does the army get the cattle herd to trample Forgemen to death?
(a) They drive Forgemen and the cattle into a narrow valley.
(b) They make him lie down in the cattle barn where the animals eat.
(c) They tie Forgemen to a swinging gate and let the cattle through.
(d) They have the dogs round up the cattle where Forgemen sleeps on the ground.

3. What does Cuchulain do each night?
(a) Kill one hundred of the Irish.
(b) Set fires around the camps of the Irish.
(c) Tell stories and poems of his great victories.
(d) Steal the Irish livestock.

4. Why does Cuchulain increase his killing as Medb moves into Ulster?
(a) They are reaching his own lands.
(b) They are increasing their numbers of warriors.
(c) He is nervous that they are getting stronger.
(d) They are taunting him and it angers him.

5. What did the Crutti Cainbili turn into after they ran away from the men of Ireland?
(a) Rabbits.
(b) Deer.
(c) Dogs.
(d) Cattle.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Cuchulain do to the three MacArach men?

2. What does Forgemen do?

3. What does the spy find out?

4. Which of the following is not true about Cuchulain?

5. Before the battle begins, what does Cuchulain see that shocks him?

(see the answer key)

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