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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. How does Cuchulain kill Mani, Medb and Ailill's son?
(a) He stabs him with his sword.
(b) He creates a flood and Mani drowns in it.
(c) He traps him in a wooded area and kills him.
(d) He tricks him into retreating and his men kill him.

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

3. What does Cuchulain propose by saying he won't kill the men anymore if he gets food and water each day?
(a) A ceasefire.
(b) A truce.
(c) A declaration of war.
(d) A surrender.

4. What is one of the bull of Cooley's special powers?
(a) He breeds with heifers who always have twins.
(b) He is so large he can kill three men with one step.
(c) He can speak.
(d) He breeds with heifers who give birth the next day.

5. Medb and Ailill split into two groups. What does Ailill then do?
(a) He stops and camps for a while because he is ill.
(b) He ambushes a group of Cuchalain's men.
(c) He sends a spy to see what Medb and Fergus are doing.
(d) He gets lost on the unfamiliar road.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Medb react to Fedelm's prophecy of a bloody battle?

2. When Medb met Cuchulain she scoffed at him. Why?

3. What does the narrator tell the reader at the end of "The Foretelling"?

4. Fedelm is a prophet. What is she doing when Medb meets her for the first time?

5. How does the bull enter Medb's possession?

(see the answer key)

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