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

2. Who proclaimed the Irish the only people who cannot be psychoanalyzed?
(a) Dr. Phil.
(b) Alfred Adler.
(c) Carl Jung.
(d) Sigmund Freud.

3. Who does the speaker in "Saint Patrick's Breastplate" praise God as?
(a) The Bright and Morning Star.
(b) The Three in One.
(c) The I Am.
(d) The All in All.

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

5. Why does Patricius walk 200 miles to Wexford?
(a) A voice tells him to convert Ireland.
(b) His master has pity on him and gives him his freedom.
(c) A voice tells him to run away.
(d) A voice tells him he is going home.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is believed to live outside the boundaries of the Imperium?

2. Who are the druids?

3. Ireland becomes the first _____________________ country as it becomes an English colony.

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

5. What makes Patrick angry when it takes place?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What are Patrick's and Augustine's opinions of each other? Why?

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

5. How did Saxons understand the world?

6. What is Patrick's view of magic?

7. 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?

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

9. What apocryphal legends about Patrick have arisen that are familiar to us?

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

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