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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Medb stop Curoi from confronting Amargin?
(a) Because his fighting skills are very poor.
(b) Because he is killing more of their men than Amargin is.
(c) Because she loves him and wants him alive.
(d) Because he is needed for the final battle.

2. What does "red-shame" refer to?
(a) Clothes.
(b) Blood.
(c) A shield.
(d) Hair.

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

4. How does Cethern get killed?
(a) Ailill's son lures him into a ring of armed men.
(b) Medb ties him up and leaves him to die.
(c) He is pushed off a cliff.
(d) He is drowned in a vat of cattle blood.

5. What does Donn take back to Cruachan the next morning?
(a) Cormac's body.
(b) The riches of Ulster.
(c) Medb on his back.
(d) The remains of the other bull.

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

7. The battle for Medb's daughter is called a white-fight. Why?
(a) No one died.
(b) No blood was shed by her loved one.
(c) It happened at dawn.
(d) It was a pure cause.

8. Cuchulain killed Tamon because Tamon was disguised as someone else. Who?
(a) Ailill.
(b) Morrigan.
(c) Medb.
(d) A druid.

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

10. What is the result of the meeting of the Ulstermen?
(a) They get angry and kill each other.
(b) They offer to sacrifice their best warrior to the gods.
(c) They quit and go home.
(d) They make a whole new strategy for coming battles.

11. What is Iliach's reaction to the Irish scorn?
(a) He is scared and runs away.
(b) He is enraged and kills them with his bare hands.
(c) He sends for his troops.
(d) He makes them chase him and they fall off a cliff.

12. What fraction of the Irish army survives Cuchulain's rage?
(a) One-quarter.
(b) One-half.
(c) One-third.
(d) Two-thirds.

13. What do Cethern's wounds tell?
(a) How long he has to live.
(b) How healthy he is.
(c) The future of the Irish.
(d) What sort of person inflicted them.

14. What should have Oengus done when he arrived to help Cuchulain?
(a) Listened to Cuchulain on how best to help him.
(b) Consulted the Druids on his future.
(c) Killed many Irish to prove he was an excellent soldier.
(d) Made a good friend of Fergus.

15. What is unusual about Cuchulain's hair?
(a) He is almost bald.
(b) It is worn in a ponytail.
(c) It is very long.
(d) It is three different colors.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the fairy refuse to help Cuchulain avenge the Slaughter of the Youths?

2. What does Cethern soak in for three days?

3. What does Cethern demand from Cuchulain?

4. What do the people who help Cuchulain after the battle with Ferdiad put on his wounds?

5. What does Cuchulain want the Ulstermen to do?

(see the answer keys)

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