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

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

3. What are two artifacts that represent the Irish transition from paganism to Christianity?
(a) St. Patrick's Breastplate and the Gundestrup Cauldron.
(b) The Ardagh Chalice and St. Patrick's Breastplate.
(c) The Gundestrup Cauldron and the Ardagh Chalice.
(d) Borremose Man and the Ardagh Chalice.

4. Christian Saxons always look to the Irish as ____________ in Christ.
(a) Elders.
(b) Juniors.
(c) Equals.
(d) Inferiors.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is NOT one of the classic Irish virtues?

2. It is Patrick's hope that the Irish will at least accept the body as what?

3. What is NOT true about the great Irish prayer known both as "Saint Patrick's Breastplate" and as "The Deer's Cry"?

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

5. Who is Cernunnos?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What is Patrick's view of magic?

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

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

7. As the White Martyrs establish monasteries across Europe, what situation do they repeatedly encounter and from where does the solution come?

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

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

10. 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?

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