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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which group raids Britain in the fifth century?
(a) Huns.
(b) Celts.
(c) Normans.
(d) Anglo-Saxons.

2. What are the Irish renowned as during the fifth century?
(a) Sailors.
(b) Scholars.
(c) Warriors.
(d) Farmers.

3. What task is Patricius pressed into doing by his new master?
(a) Blacksmithing.
(b) Training horses.
(c) Herding cows.
(d) Tending sheep.

4. What Psalm was Columcille in the middle of copying the night he died?
(a) 23.
(b) 34.
(c) 119.
(d) 151.

5. Had Augustine read "Breastplate," he would doubtless--according to his beliefs--have sensed ______________.
(a) Heresy.
(b) Paganism.
(c) Spirituality.
(d) Kinship.

Short Answer Questions

1. In which mountain range do the two rivers that separate the barbarians from the Roman Empire originate?

2. What happens to Augustine after he begins reading the Bible?

3. Like the Jews earlier, the Irish see literacy as a __________________ act.

4. What effect does slavery have on Patricius' faith?

5. What is Tain Bo Cuailnge?

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