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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What do the pagan Irish gods eat?
(a) Insects.
(b) Human meat.
(c) Fruits and vegetables.
(d) Fish.

3. What does Patrick find the Irish displaying in their temples, on their palisades, and even hanging on their belts?
(a) The heads of sea creatures.
(b) The heads of their livestock.
(c) The heads of their enemies.
(d) The heads of birds.

4. What is the name of the person who kidnaps Patricius?
(a) Flanagan.
(b) Daniel.
(c) Cuchulainn.
(d) Miliucc.

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

6. What was Columcille's name before he became a monk?
(a) Diarmait.
(b) Ogham.
(c) Crimthann.
(d) Finian.

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

8. Where is the monastery that Columcille founded located?
(a) Connaught.
(b) Cork.
(c) Iona.
(d) Dublin.

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

10. Where did Patrick establish his headquarters?
(a) Connaught.
(b) Cork.
(c) Galway.
(d) Armagh.

11. What are annually renewable in Ireland on Feb. 1, the feast of Imbolc, as late as the twelfth century?
(a) Employment contracts.
(b) Mortgages.
(c) Marriages.
(d) Friendships.

12. The Irish believe that "the one thing the devil cannot bear is _____________."
(a) Laughter.
(b) Cooperation.
(c) Faith.
(d) Joy.

13. Who invades Ireland near the end of the seventh century?
(a) Vikings.
(b) Saxons.
(c) Elizabethans.
(d) Normans.

14. Which of the artifacts that represent the Irish transition from paganism to Christianity was a pagan votary offering?
(a) St. Patrick's Breastplate.
(b) Borremose Man.
(c) The Ardagh Chalice.
(d) The Gundestrup Cauldron.

15. Who burns John Scotus Eriugena's book, De Divisione Naturae?
(a) Pope Gregory I.
(b) King Charles the Bald.
(c) King Charlemagne.
(d) Pope Honorius III.

Short Answer Questions

1. What makes Patrick angry when it takes place?

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

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

4. What effect does slavery have on Patricius' faith?

5. Who was the first emperor to blend Roman citizenship and church membership?

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