View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What effect does slavery have on Patricius' faith?
(a) He questions God and eventually becomes a Catholic.
(b) He prays constantly and becomes a holy man.
(c) He curses God and dies.
(d) He questions God and remains an atheist.

3. Which of the artifacts that represent the Irish transition from paganism to Christianity was a pagan votary offering?
(a) The Gundestrup Cauldron.
(b) Borremose Man.
(c) St. Patrick's Breastplate.
(d) The Ardagh Chalice.

4. What is believed to live outside the boundaries of the Imperium?
(a) The gods.
(b) Unicorns and fairies.
(c) Monsters.
(d) Barbarians.

5. For ________________, there are no known communications between Rome and Britain, much less Rome and Ireland.
(a) 50 years.
(b) 200 years.
(c) 150 years.
(d) 1000 years.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What are the names of the Irish war goddesses?

3. Like the Jews earlier, the Irish see literacy as a __________________ act.

4. By 1914, four million Irish have left the country due to persecution and famine. What ratio of the 1845 population is this?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What were the "White Martyrs?"

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

6. How did Saxons understand the world?

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

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

9. 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?

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

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 502 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample