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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where is the monastery that Columcille founded located?
(a) Iona.
(b) Cork.
(c) Connaught.
(d) Dublin.

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

3. What is NOT true about the great Irish prayer known both as "Saint Patrick's Breastplate" and as "The Deer's Cry"?
(a) The speaker in the prayer is most likely a druid who has converted to Christianity.
(b) The prayer summons God's power against all forms of evil.
(c) It was written in the seventh or eighth century.
(d) It was written by Patrick himself.

4. Who was the first emperor to blend Roman citizenship and church membership?
(a) Constantine.
(b) Marcus Aurelius.
(c) Julius Caesar.
(d) Nero.

5. According to the author of How the Irish Saved Civilization, why do British Christians not even consider Irish Christians human beings?
(a) They have red hair.
(b) They are not Roman.
(c) Their warriors fight in the nude.
(d) They are not British.

Short Answer Questions

1. What publication format replaced the scroll?

2. How does How the Irish Saved Civilization describe the Irish?

3. What year C.E. is believed to be that of Patrick's death?

4. Whose intent was it to preach to all nations?

5. After he returns to Britain, what does Patricius feel called by?

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