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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 unusual form of apology mentioned in Chapter 4 that is requested by the sailors of Patricius?
(a) Kissing a person's feet.
(b) Clipping a person's toenails.
(c) Sucking a person's nipples.
(d) Cutting a person's hair.

2. How old is Patricius when he is kidnapped?
(a) Six.
(b) Sixteen.
(c) Sixty.
(d) Twenty-six.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which Irish king does Patrick criticize?

2. What was Patricius' faith before his kidnapping?

3. Who does the speaker in "Saint Patrick's Breastplate" praise God as?

4. For how many years is Patrick a missionary in Ireland?

5. What laws are instituted in the eighteenth century to deprive Irish Catholics, specifically, of their civil rights?

Short Essay Questions

1. What monasteries did Columbanus found in Gaul?

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

3. How did Saxons understand the world?

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 effect do the decisions made at the Synod of Whitby have on the Irish understanding of the relationship between themselves and Rome?

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

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

8. Although the Irish saw nothing positive in the Viking occupation, what did they in fact establish?

9. What were the "White Martyrs?"

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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