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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The night before he is ordained as a deacon, what does Patricius confide to a friend and receive forgiveness for?
(a) A sin committed at five.
(b) A sin committed during his slavery.
(c) A sin committed that night.
(d) A sin committed at fifteen.

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

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

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

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

6. 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 homosexual.
(d) It was headed by a woman.

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

8. What is the youthful sin that Patrick confessed to the night before his ordination most likely believed to be?
(a) Sexual immorality.
(b) Theft or arson.
(c) The murder of a slave or servant.
(d) The murder of his master.

9. How does Patrick convince the Irish to stop human sacrifices?
(a) He tells them Christ died once for all.
(b) He tells them it is morally wrong.
(c) He tells them they will go to Hell if they keep it up.
(d) He tells them it is illegal according to Roman law.

10. Which Irish king does Patrick criticize?
(a) Diermait.
(b) Ailil.
(c) Cuchulainn.
(d) Coroticus.

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

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

13. 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) Friendships.
(d) Marriages.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. After his ordination and return to Ireland, Patricius' name changed to: _____________

2. What are the names of the missionaries who establish monasteries in Germanic lands such as Frisia, Denmark, and Saxony?

3. What council considers the correct date of Easter and the form of the Irish monastic tonsure?

4. It is Patrick's hope that the Irish will at least accept the body as what?

5. What does Patrick find the Irish displaying in their temples, on their palisades, and even hanging on their belts?

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