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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Patricius walk 200 miles to Wexford?
(a) A voice tells him to convert Ireland.
(b) A voice tells him to run away.
(c) A voice tells him he is going home.
(d) His master has pity on him and gives him his freedom.

2. When Queen Medb's messenger finds a replacement bull, what are the terms under which its owner agrees to lend it to her?
(a) His choice of one of Medb's own cows and her daughter's hand.
(b) Financial profit and Medb's own "friendly thighs."
(c) His choice of one of Medb's own cows and Medb's own "friendly thighs."
(d) Financial profit and his choice of one of Medb's own cows.

3. What ends Ausonius' career?
(a) Valentinian I's murder.
(b) A plagiarism scandal.
(c) Valentinian II's murder.
(d) Gratian's murder.

4. How does How the Irish Saved Civilization describe modern English and Americans?
(a) Anglo-Saxon Catholics.
(b) Protestant Anglo-Saxons.
(c) Celtic Protestants.
(d) Celtic Catholics.

5. What is Tain Bo Cuailnge?
(a) An Irish prose epic.
(b) A Roman prose epic.
(c) An Irish poetry epic.
(d) A Roman poetry epic.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of culture is Ireland described as in the opening pages of this book?

2. Who blamed the Christian virtues that softened Rome for its fall?

3. Which class and nationality of people considered the Irish "incapable of civilization?"

4. What position is Ausonius given in the year 375 A.D.?

5. In addition to sexual mores, Patrick had to confront the practice of human sacrifice. All _________ people sacrificed people.

(see the answer key)

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