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

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

3. By 1914, four million Irish have left the country due to persecution and famine. What ratio of the 1845 population is this?
(a) 7/8.
(b) 1/4.
(c) 2/3.
(d) 1/2.

4. What is NOT true about the great Irish prayer known both as "Saint Patrick's Breastplate" and as "The Deer's Cry"?
(a) It was written in the seventh or eighth century.
(b) It was written by Patrick himself.
(c) The speaker in the prayer is most likely a druid who has converted to Christianity.
(d) The prayer summons God's power against all forms of evil.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. One thing that all heroes in ancient Irish literature have in common is that they fall prey to some "geis." What does the word "geis" mean in English?

2. Irish monasteries become hubs for:

3. What do the pagan Irish gods eat?

4. What is the unusual form of apology mentioned in Chapter 4 that is requested by the sailors of Patricius?

5. What was Brigid before she is consecrated as a bishop?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What monasteries did Columbanus found in Gaul?

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

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

8. What does the poem "St. Patrick's Breastplate" inspire?

9. Why does Patrick believe that the Christian has nothing to fear from the world of magic?

10. When Patricius (renamed Patrick) leaves the Ecumene after his ordination to become a missionary to Ireland, what is he willing to do for the sake of the Gospel?

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