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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. By what name do the Irish refer to the Christian God?
(a) The God of Ireland.
(b) The God of the Three Faces.
(c) The God of Rome.
(d) The God of Patrick.

2. Who are the druids?
(a) Irish monks.
(b) Pagan Irish priests.
(c) Catholic Irish priests.
(d) Irish nuns.

3. What laws are instituted in the eighteenth century to deprive Irish Catholics, specifically, of their civil rights?
(a) Jim Crow.
(b) Green.
(c) Penal.
(d) Apartheid.

4. What makes Patrick angry when it takes place?
(a) People who disagree with him.
(b) Injustice against the weak.
(c) Sexual immorality.
(d) Those who refuse Christianity.

5. Which historical document describes the details of the seventh-century invasion of Ireland, monastery by monastery?
(a) The Viking Annals.
(b) The Norman Archives.
(c) The Book of Kells.
(d) The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle.

Short Answer Questions

1. What Saxon hero is shown with the Celtic virtues of loyalty, courage, and generosity?

2. Which of the artifacts was intended for the Catholic sacrifice of the Eucharist (i.e., Communion)?

3. What council considers the correct date of Easter and the form of the Irish monastic tonsure?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What were the "White Martyrs?"

5. 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?

6. What does Patrick call King Coroticus's kidnapping of thousands of Irish converts?

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

8. 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?

9. What is Patrick's view of magic?

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

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