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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In which school does John Scotus Eriugena teach?
(a) University of Dublin.
(b) Glendalough.
(c) The Sorbonne.
(d) Palatine School.

2. How many people was Cuchulainn able to reportedly kill in three passes during one battle?
(a) 130 kings and innumerable rabble.
(b) As many as the sands on the shore.
(c) Innumerable kings and 130 rabble.
(d) Innumerable; but it is known that the dead were six deep in a vast circle.

3. Which university is historian Anthony Grafton affiliated with?
(a) Princeton.
(b) Oxford.
(c) Cambridge.
(d) Harvard.

4. Whom does Pope Gregory I send a librarian, Augustine, to baptize?
(a) Patrick.
(b) Columcille.
(c) King Henry VIII.
(d) The King of Kent.

5. What was fifth-century Rome considered?
(a) The world's only superpower.
(b) The most modern society in the known world.
(c) A representative republic.
(d) A third-world country.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the title of Augustine of Hippo's memoir?

2. Where did Patrick establish his headquarters?

3. What two genres does Augustine of Hippo's memoir begin?

4. What are annually renewable in Ireland on Feb. 1, the feast of Imbolc, as late as the twelfth century?

5. What are the names of the Irish war goddesses?

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