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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Whose intent was it to preach to all nations?
(a) The pope's.
(b) Patrick's.
(c) The apostles'.
(d) The barbarians'.

4. Ireland is the only place that Christianity is introduced without:
(a) Bloodshed.
(b) Revolt.
(c) Religion.
(d) Controversy.

5. 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 that night.
(c) A sin committed during his slavery.
(d) A sin committed at fifteen.

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

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

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

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

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

11. What were Celtic corpses such as Tolland Man, Grauballe Man, Borremose Man, and Lindow Man examples of?
(a) Celtic sacrifice victims.
(b) Celtic prisoners of war.
(c) Celtic victims of the Romans.
(d) Celtic victims of the barbarians.

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

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

14. What makes Patrick angry when it takes place?
(a) Injustice against the weak.
(b) Sexual immorality.
(c) People who disagree with him.
(d) Those who refuse Christianity.

15. After he returns to Britain, what does Patricius feel called by?
(a) The "Voice of Rome."
(b) The "Voice of the Vatican."
(c) The "Voice of Gaul."
(d) The "Voice of Ireland."

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom does Pope Gregory I send a librarian, Augustine, to baptize?

2. What language does Patricius speak at home?

3. What heresy do many readers see in John Scotus Eriugena's works?

4. What is the Irish approach to marriage and sex considered?

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

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