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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 did Tolland Man, Grauballe Man, Borremose Man, and Lindow Man all have in common?
(a) They were willing participants in the sacrificial rites that killed them.
(b) They were unwilling participants in the sacrificial rites that killed them.
(c) They appear to have died on the same day.
(d) They were found underneath Patrick's church.

2. What are annually renewable in Ireland on Feb. 1, the feast of Imbolc, as late as the twelfth century?
(a) Friendships.
(b) Marriages.
(c) Mortgages.
(d) Employment contracts.

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

4. What do the pagan Irish gods eat?
(a) Human meat.
(b) Fruits and vegetables.
(c) Insects.
(d) Fish.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who invades Ireland near the end of the seventh century?

2. What word can be used to describe a "Green Martyr"?

3. What publication format replaced the scroll?

4. Who is the first person in history to speak out against slavery unequivocally?

5. What task is Patricius pressed into doing by his new master?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who was described as "the first man in three hundred years who was able to think?"

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. Why did Pope Honorius III order that John Scotus' book, De Divisione Naturae, be burned?

10. What were the "White Martyrs?"

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