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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. In addition to sexual mores, Patrick had to confront the practice of human sacrifice. All _________ people sacrificed people.
(a) Uneducated.
(b) Celtic.
(c) Pagan.
(d) Stone Age.

4. 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 pagan.
(c) It was headed by the King of England.
(d) It was headed by a woman.

5. Why is Ireland the only place from which the European missionaries can get books?
(a) The barbarians are pagans.
(b) The art of copying is dead in Italy and Gaul.
(c) The barbarians are illiterate.
(d) The missionaries only speak Gaelic.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What publication format replaced the scroll?

2. What is NOT true about the great Irish prayer known both as "Saint Patrick's Breastplate" and as "The Deer's Cry"?

3. Who invades Ireland near the end of the seventh century?

4. Who proclaimed the Irish the only people who cannot be psychoanalyzed?

5. What language does Patricius speak at home?

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