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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did Cuchulain feel guilty about the Slaughter of the Youths?
(a) He had been asleep for three days and didn't protect them.
(b) He had promised their families they wouldn't die.
(c) He had planned to train them before battle.
(d) Many of them were his friends and cousins.

2. What happens when Donn is almost back to Cruachan?
(a) He is captured.
(b) He kills a thousand Ulstermen.
(c) He dies.
(d) He kills a thousand Irishmen.

3. How does Laeg make Cuchulain feel better about not fighting?
(a) He tells him he is a great battle hero.
(b) He prepares a fantastic feast for him.
(c) He tells him no army could defeat them.
(d) He dresses his wounds.

4. After eight hours of battle with shields and blades, what do Ferdiad and Cuchulain decide to do?
(a) To work together to defeat Medb.
(b) Make a truce.
(c) Choose another way to fight.
(d) Call in more warriors to help them.

5. What is Celtchar a leader of?
(a) The Druids.
(b) The Scots.
(c) The Ulstermen.
(d) The Irish.

6. Medb wants Fergus to fight Cuchulain. Why doesn't he want to?
(a) Fergus is small and weak and fears Cuchulain.
(b) Fergus thinks Cuchulain is evil.
(c) Fergus doesn't want to kill a man of the same religion.
(d) Cuchulain was his young disciple.

7. Why does Cuchulain say he can fight no more?
(a) He has lost too much weight.
(b) He has lost his nerve.
(c) He wants only peace.
(d) He is completely covered with wounds.

8. How do Cuchulain and Mann fight?
(a) With slingshots.
(b) With bows and arrows.
(c) With their bare hands.
(d) With swords.

9. Which of the following is untrue about Mann?
(a) He is loud.
(b) He is gigantic.
(c) Medb sends him to fight Cuchulain.
(d) He is a coward.

10. How does Amargin try to block the Irish fighters?
(a) By throwing stones at them.
(b) By building a road block.
(c) By setting fire to the forest.
(d) By sending his trained wolves after them.

11. The men who fought the Irish after Menn were killed. How were they killed?
(a) With pots of boiling water.
(b) With stones.
(c) With swords.
(d) With poison.

12. Laeg and Cuchulain get ready for battle. What does Laeg do about the chariot?
(a) Hide it in the forest.
(b) Make it invisible.
(c) Destroy it.
(d) Decorate it with skulls of Irish killed in battle.

13. What happens to Oengus after he arrives to help Cuchulain?
(a) The Irish surround him and kill him.
(b) He is successful in twenty battles but is then killed.
(c) He becomes Cuchulain's top advisor.
(d) He turns traitor and joins the Irish.

14. Why do the Irish fighters scorn Iliach as a warrior?
(a) He is a braggart.
(b) He is stupid.
(c) His horse and chariot are shabby.
(d) He has no weapons.

15. How many bandits are in Ferchu's gang?
(a) Twelve.
(b) Ten.
(c) Fifty.
(d) Twenty-seven.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Cethern have on his stomach to keep his organs inside?

2. What do the Irish men think of the result of the meeting of the Ulstermen?

3. What does Cethern soak in for three days?

4. What does Fergus finally offer to do if Cuchulain will run away?

5. Dubthach of Ulster is angry with Cuchulain. Why?

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