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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What was Brigid before she is consecrated as a bishop?
(a) A druid princess.
(b) A prostitute.
(c) A slave.
(d) A peasant girl.

3. What is NOT changed in Ireland as a result of Patrick's influence as a bishop?
(a) Murder.
(b) Intertribal warfare.
(c) Slave trade.
(d) Loose sexual mores.

4. How far are the apostles Peter and Thomas believed to have gone in their missionary journeys?
(a) India and Rome, respectively.
(b) Rome and India, respectively.
(c) Rome and Italy, respectively.
(d) Britain and France, respectively.

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

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

7. What year C.E. is believed to be that of Patrick's death?
(a) 614.
(b) 416.
(c) 461.
(d) 641.

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

9. By 1914, four million Irish have left the country due to persecution and famine. What ratio of the 1845 population is this?
(a) 7/8.
(b) 2/3.
(c) 1/4.
(d) 1/2.

10. Where is the Book of Kells preserved?
(a) The Vatican, Vatican City.
(b) Aberdeen University, Scotland.
(c) Trinity College, Dublin.
(d) Cambridge University, England.

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

12. What are the names of the Irish war goddesses?
(a) Ares and Mercury.
(b) Nemain and Badb.
(c) Badb and Medb.
(d) Danu and Medb.

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

14. What heresy do many readers see in John Scotus Eriugena's works?
(a) Animism.
(b) Pelagianism.
(c) Pantheism.
(d) Gnosticism.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the author of How the Irish Saved Civilization, why do British Christians not even consider Irish Christians human beings?

2. Why does Patricius walk 200 miles to Wexford?

3. What is the unusual form of apology mentioned in Chapter 4 that is requested by the sailors of Patricius?

4. What makes Patrick angry when it takes place?

5. The Irish believe that "the one thing the devil cannot bear is _____________."

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