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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What job does Laeg do for Cuchulain?
(a) He is his fortune teller.
(b) He is his chariot driver.
(c) He is his personal assistant.
(d) He is his battle advisor.

2. When Medb met Cuchulain she scoffed at him. Why?
(a) He looked very tired.
(b) He looked very small and weak.
(c) He was very young.
(d) He was drunk.

3. What does Medb do while Cuchulain is with Morrigan?
(a) Send Druids out to find Morrigan.
(b) Send a spy to find out where Cuchulain is.
(c) Plot with Ailill to offer Cuchulain her daughter.
(d) Send one hundred men to fight him.

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

5. What does Cuchulain do to the three MacArach men?
(a) Marches them off to his camp.
(b) Decapitates them.
(c) Throws them into a pit.
(d) Laughs at them and rides off.

6. What are Ailill and Medb talking about as they lie in their bed?
(a) Their health.
(b) Their wealth.
(c) That Medb did not get along with her father.
(d) That Ailill was a king before he married Medb.

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

8. In her second disguise, Morrigan is an eel. What does she do to Cuchulain in battle?
(a) Slithers under his armor and tickles him.
(b) Binds herself around his feet.
(c) Binds herself around his arms.
(d) Scares him so he drops his shield.

9. What are Munremar and Curoi involved in?
(a) Stealing livestock from the Irish.
(b) A feud.
(c) A business.
(d) A plot.

10. 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 gets lost on the unfamiliar road.
(c) He sends a spy to see what Medb and Fergus are doing.
(d) He ambushes a group of Cuchalain's men.

11. Why does the narrator say it would be boring to tell about every battle?
(a) There are only a few ways to kill a man in battle.
(b) The results are always the same - Cuchulain is the winner.
(c) No one can remember everything.
(d) The details are too hard to understand.

12. What is the name of the bull of Cooley?
(a) Barry.
(b) Fergus.
(c) Donn.
(d) Morrigan.

13. What is Medb's reaction to Etarcumul's death?
(a) She cries in grief.
(b) She surrenders and starts for home.
(c) She screams in rage.
(d) She kills Fergus.

14. How does Cuchulain kill Cyr?
(a) Throws an apple through his shield and head.
(b) Hits him over the head with his shield.
(c) Hides in an apple tree and shoots him with an arrow.
(d) Breaks his neck while wrestling.

15. What does Medb offer Cuchulain if he will stop killing her men?
(a) Her niece as a bride for Cuchulain.
(b) A hundred pounds of gold.
(c) Half of her herd of cattle.
(d) Land south of the River Ouse.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Crutti Cainbilli were not ordinary men at all. What were they?

2. What does Fergus get Cuchulain to agree to?

3. Where did Medb and Ailill's neighboring kings' men gather?

4. Dari accepts Medb's offer. After the feast to celebrate, he changes his mind. Why?

5. Why does Cuchulain increase his killing as Medb moves into Ulster?

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