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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Patricius go to study for ordination?
(a) Rome.
(b) Gaul.
(c) Paris.
(d) London.

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

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

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

5. These people preserved Europe's Greco-Roman and Judaeo-Christian heritage.
(a) Irish.
(b) Vikings.
(c) Gauls.
(d) Romans.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the first person in history to speak out against slavery unequivocally?

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

3. What subject does Ausonius teach at the University of Bordeaux?

4. Why is Ireland the only place from which the European missionaries can get books?

5. Which class and nationality of people considered the Irish "incapable of civilization?"

(see the answer key)

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