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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 was Patricius' faith before his kidnapping?
(a) Atheist.
(b) Catholic.
(c) Roman deities.
(d) Jewish.

2. In which school does John Scotus Eriugena teach?
(a) Palatine School.
(b) Glendalough.
(c) The Sorbonne.
(d) University of Dublin.

3. What Irish feasts are still celebrated to this day?
(a) Halloween and Groundhog Day.
(b) May Day and Hanukkah.
(c) May Day and Halloween.
(d) Easter and Halloween.

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. What language does Patricius speak at home?
(a) Gaelic.
(b) Welsh.
(c) Latin.
(d) Saxon.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What task is Patricius pressed into doing by his new master?

3. By what name do the Irish refer to the Christian God?

4. Whose intent was it to preach to all nations?

5. For ________________, there are no known communications between Rome and Britain, much less Rome and Ireland.

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

2. Why was Patricius turned away when he arrived in Wexford and asked for passage to Britain?

3. Where was Kevin of Glendalough's monastery located?

4. What are the two reasons cited for Ireland's transition from chaos to peace?

5. What monasteries did Columbanus found in Gaul?

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

7. In addition to the spiritual welfare of the Irish, what does Patrick worry about?

8. Before he was kidnapped, what was Patricius' opinion of God and the Catholic Church?

9. How are the Irish gods and goddesses are described?

10. What did Edward Campion say about the Irish and learning?

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