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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Combat of Munremar and Curoi | The Slaughter of the Boy Troop.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the spy find out?
(a) Medb believes Ailill has turned against her.
(b) Medb and Fergus are having an affair.
(c) Medb is very discouraged and is planning a new strategy.
(d) Medb has disappeared with the soldiers.

2. What does Medb do as she makes her way through Ulster?
(a) Kills everyone she comes across.
(b) Steals everything she can.
(c) Names all the places after herself.
(d) Makes the men join her army.

3. The men of Ireland set off to Ulster. When they get to Cooley, what do they do?
(a) Destroy all the villages in the area.
(b) Raid Conchobar's castle.
(c) Divide into groups and look for the bull.
(d) Surround Cooley and just wait.

4. Who does Fergus send to tell Cuchulain that he should never be caught running from battle?
(a) MacRoth.
(b) Fiachu.
(c) Lochi.
(d) Ailill.

5. Medb wants to borrow Dari of Cooley's bull for a year. What deal does MacRoth the Messenger offer Dari?
(a) She will keep the bull, but give him her friendship and protection.
(b) She will return the bull and give him a chariot.
(c) She will return the bull and give him fifty heifers.
(d) She will return the bull and give him a lot of land.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Fergus chosen to be the spokesman with the powerful men of Ulster?

2. What does Forgemen do?

3. What is Cuchulain doing while the men of Ireland are tunneling?

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

5. What happens to Cuchulain's body when he becomes very angry about the actions of the Irish?

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