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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After his ordination and return to Ireland, Patricius' name changed to: _____________
(a) Sean.
(b) Patrick.
(c) Kevin.
(d) Connor.

2. What Psalm was Columcille in the middle of copying the night he died?
(a) 34.
(b) 151.
(c) 23.
(d) 119.

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 are not Roman.
(c) They have red hair.
(d) They are not British.

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

5. What language does Patricius speak at home?
(a) Welsh.
(b) Saxon.
(c) Gaelic.
(d) Latin.

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

7. For how many years is Patrick a missionary in Ireland?
(a) Three.
(b) Thirteen.
(c) Thirty.
(d) Thirty-three.

8. What is NOT one of the classic Irish virtues?
(a) Generosity.
(b) Grumpiness.
(c) Courage.
(d) Steadfast loyalty.

9. Whom does the pope crown as King of the Franks on Christmas Day 800?
(a) Louis.
(b) Charlemagne.
(c) Napoleon.
(d) Charles the Bald.

10. What about Columcille's monastery would not have met with the Pope's approval?
(a) It was headed by a homosexual.
(b) It was headed by a woman.
(c) It was headed by the King of England.
(d) It was headed by a pagan.

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

12. What did the autopsy done on Lindow Man find that his last meal consisted of?
(a) Blackened hearthcake.
(b) Potatoes.
(c) Lamb.
(d) Blackened cod.

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

14. One well-known Green Martyr was:
(a) Kevin of Glendalough.
(b) Venerable Bede.
(c) St. Jerome.
(d) Cicero.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the pagan Irish gods eat?

2. Who does the speaker in "Saint Patrick's Breastplate" praise God as?

3. After he returns to Britain, what does Patricius feel called by?

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

5. What was Patricius' faith before his kidnapping?

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