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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What are the names of the missionaries who establish monasteries in Germanic lands such as Frisia, Denmark, and Saxony?
(a) Boniface and Charlemagne.
(b) Charlemagne and Dungal.
(c) Wilfrid and Boniface.
(d) Wilfrid and Grendel.

3. 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) Dante, Homer, and Bill Gates.
(c) Francis of Assisi, Mother Teresa, and Shakespeare.
(d) George Lucas, Mother Teresa, and Barack Obama.

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

5. In contrast to his youth, Augustine's post-conversion views on sex appear to be:
(a) Stricter.
(b) The same as Patrick's.
(c) Looser.
(d) Unchanged.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What are annually renewable in Ireland on Feb. 1, the feast of Imbolc, as late as the twelfth century?

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

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What do the Irish monasteries, whose leaders are termed "literate druids," become centers for?

2. Where were the "spirals, zigzags, and lozenges" that decorated the Irish monks' books first used?

3. Who do the archaeologists who found Lindow Man believe he was, and what do they believe was the reason for his sacrifice?

4. What happens when war goddesses Nemain and Badb appear in warriors' dreams to tell them what will happen in battle the following day?

5. What monasteries did Columbanus found in Gaul?

6. As the White Martyrs establish monasteries across Europe, what situation do they repeatedly encounter and from where does the solution come?

7. How did Saxons understand the world?

8. Why did Pope Honorius III order that John Scotus' book, De Divisione Naturae, be burned?

9. What event did Irish Christians light bonfires to commemorate?

10. What do the Irish believe that gods, druids, poets, and anyone in touch with the magic-world are able to do? What is this phenomenon called?

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