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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does How the Irish Saved Civilization describe the Irish?
(a) Celtic Protestants.
(b) Anglo-Saxon Catholics.
(c) Celtic Catholics.
(d) Protestant Anglo-Saxons.

2. Why is Ireland the only place from which the European missionaries can get books?
(a) The barbarians are pagans.
(b) The art of copying is dead in Italy and Gaul.
(c) The barbarians are illiterate.
(d) The missionaries only speak Gaelic.

3. What council considers the correct date of Easter and the form of the Irish monastic tonsure?
(a) The Synod of Whitby.
(b) The Synod of Dort.
(c) The Council of Orange.
(d) The Council of Nicaea.

4. What task is Patricius pressed into doing by his new master?
(a) Blacksmithing.
(b) Herding cows.
(c) Training horses.
(d) Tending sheep.

5. 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.?
(a) Patricius.
(b) Patrick.
(c) Patrocles.
(d) Petrarch.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose student is Plato?

2. What is believed to live outside the boundaries of the Imperium?

3. Which river separated the Roman legions from the barbarian hordes that were attacking them?

4. Like the Jews earlier, the Irish see literacy as a __________________ act.

5. Who is Cernunnos?

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