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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Brigid before she is consecrated as a bishop?
(a) A peasant girl.
(b) A druid princess.
(c) A prostitute.
(d) A slave.

2. What controls Irish society prior to its Christianization?
(a) Aristocracy.
(b) Anarchy.
(c) Democracy.
(d) Monarchy.

3. What type of evidence backs the Irish foundation myth?
(a) Geological.
(b) Archaeological.
(c) None.
(d) Historical.

4. In addition to sexual mores, Patrick had to confront the practice of human sacrifice. All _________ people sacrificed people.
(a) Uneducated.
(b) Pagan.
(c) Celtic.
(d) Stone Age.

5. How many years after this first encounter did St. Augustine blame paganism for the problems his city was having with barbarians?
(a) Two.
(b) Twelve.
(c) Twenty.
(d) Seventy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to Augustine when, after reading the works of Saul of Tarsus, he realized that Plato's views on truth were wrong?

2. Who gave this report about American universities?

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

4. At the time of his capture, what is the name of the young man enslaved as a shepherd by the Irish in 401 C.E.?

5. The night before he is ordained as a deacon, what does Patricius confide to a friend and receive forgiveness for?

(see the answer key)

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