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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Ireland becomes the first _____________________ country as it becomes an English colony.
(a) Third World.
(b) Spiritually impoverished.
(c) Second World.
(d) Religiously divided.

3. According to the author of How the Irish Saved Civilization, why do British Christians not even consider Irish Christians human beings?
(a) Their warriors fight in the nude.
(b) They have red hair.
(c) They are not Roman.
(d) They are not British.

4. What Irish feasts are still celebrated to this day?
(a) Halloween and Groundhog Day.
(b) Easter and Halloween.
(c) May Day and Hanukkah.
(d) May Day and Halloween.

5. What laws are instituted in the eighteenth century to deprive Irish Catholics, specifically, of their civil rights?
(a) Green.
(b) Penal.
(c) Apartheid.
(d) Jim Crow.

6. What Saxon hero is shown with the Celtic virtues of loyalty, courage, and generosity?
(a) Beowulf.
(b) Gwynnedd.
(c) Lancelot.
(d) Beow.

7. One thing that all heroes in ancient Irish literature have in common is that they fall prey to some "geis." What does the word "geis" mean in English?
(a) Temptation.
(b) Danger.
(c) Enemy.
(d) Taboo.

8. Who does the speaker in "Saint Patrick's Breastplate" praise God as?
(a) The Bright and Morning Star.
(b) The I Am.
(c) The All in All.
(d) The Three in One.

9. Who is the first person in history to speak out against slavery unequivocally?
(a) Cuchulainn.
(b) Pelagius.
(c) Patrick.
(d) Augustine.

10. Who proclaimed the Irish the only people who cannot be psychoanalyzed?
(a) Sigmund Freud.
(b) Carl Jung.
(c) Alfred Adler.
(d) Dr. Phil.

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

12. What do the Irish gods that Patrick does not eliminate become?
(a) Gargoyles.
(b) Demons.
(c) Monsters.
(d) Angels.

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

14. Who is Cernunnos?
(a) Lord of the Fishes.
(b) Lindow Man.
(c) King of Limerick.
(d) Lord of the Animals.

15. What is believed to live outside the boundaries of the Imperium?
(a) Barbarians.
(b) The gods.
(c) Monsters.
(d) Unicorns and fairies.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the artifacts that represent the Irish transition from paganism to Christianity was a pagan votary offering?

2. One well-known Green Martyr was:

3. Had Augustine read "Breastplate," he would doubtless--according to his beliefs--have sensed ______________.

4. Which historical document describes the details of the seventh-century invasion of Ireland, monastery by monastery?

5. What was Brigid before she is consecrated as a bishop?

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