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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the modern-day name of the country from which the barbarians that attacked and eventually conquered Rome came?
(a) Britain.
(b) Ireland.
(c) Denmark.
(d) Germany.

2. What is the name of the person who kidnaps Patricius?
(a) Miliucc.
(b) Flanagan.
(c) Cuchulainn.
(d) Daniel.

3. What do the pagan Irish gods eat?
(a) Insects.
(b) Fruits and vegetables.
(c) Fish.
(d) Human meat.

4. What is the unusual form of apology mentioned in Chapter 4 that is requested by the sailors of Patricius?
(a) Cutting a person's hair.
(b) Kissing a person's feet.
(c) Clipping a person's toenails.
(d) Sucking a person's nipples.

5. Who are the druids?
(a) Irish nuns.
(b) Pagan Irish priests.
(c) Irish monks.
(d) Catholic Irish priests.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of evidence backs the Irish foundation myth?

2. Whose student is Plato?

3. What Psalm was Columcille in the middle of copying the night he died?

4. Why does the deal between Queen Medb and the bull's owner fall through?

5. What is the Irish approach to marriage and sex considered?

(see the answer key)

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