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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. It is Patrick's hope that the Irish will at least accept the body as what?
(a) Clean.
(b) Healthy.
(c) Pure.
(d) Holy.

2. Who instructs the King of the Franks about a solar eclipse?
(a) John Scotus Eriugena.
(b) Dungal.
(c) Sedulius Scotus.
(d) Dicuil.

3. Patrick is "as silent about sex as are the _________________."
(a) Waves of the sea.
(b) Flowers of the field.
(c) Gospels.
(d) Dead.

4. To which ethnic grouping do the Irish belong?
(a) Normans.
(b) Saxons.
(c) Welsh.
(d) Celts.

5. Who are among the notable people that the poem "St. Patrick's Breastplate" is said to inspire?
(a) Francis of Assisi, Mother Teresa, and Shakespeare.
(b) Dante, Homer, and Bill Gates.
(c) Francis of Assisi, Dante, and Chaucer.
(d) George Lucas, Mother Teresa, and Barack Obama.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to Augustine after he begins reading the Bible?

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

3. What word can be used to describe a "Green Martyr"?

4. What ends Ausonius' career?

5. Ireland becomes the first _____________________ country as it becomes an English colony.

(see the answer key)

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