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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 Irish feasts are still celebrated to this day?
(a) Easter and Halloween.
(b) May Day and Hanukkah.
(c) May Day and Halloween.
(d) Halloween and Groundhog Day.

2. What task is Patricius pressed into doing by his new master?
(a) Tending sheep.
(b) Blacksmithing.
(c) Herding cows.
(d) Training horses.

3. Which Irish king does Patrick criticize?
(a) Coroticus.
(b) Cuchulainn.
(c) Diermait.
(d) Ailil.

4. Who is Cernunnos?
(a) King of Limerick.
(b) Lord of the Animals.
(c) Lord of the Fishes.
(d) Lindow Man.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The Irish believe that "the one thing the devil cannot bear is _____________."

2. What effect does slavery have on Patricius' faith?

3. Whom does Pope Gregory I send a librarian, Augustine, to baptize?

4. Ireland is the only place that Christianity is introduced without:

5. What publication format replaced the scroll?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

3. How did Saxons understand the world?

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

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

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

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

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