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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Without Ireland, neither __________ nor ____________ would have occurred.
2. What is the name of Mil's family poet?
3. What is Tain Bo Cuailnge?
4. What two genres does Augustine of Hippo's memoir begin?
5. Who, according to Tain Bo Cuailnge, teaches Cuchulainn to fight?
Short Essay Questions
1. According to the author of How the Irish Saved Civilization, in what type of relationship are the Irish faithful and loyal? In what type of relationship are they not necessarily?
2. Because the Irish understand that life is fleeting, what do they pursue instead of holding onto people or things?
3. What careers did Patricius' father and grandfather hold?
4. Why do local lords loan money to tax collectors?
5. What does Augustine discover about language?
6. Who is the most dominating character in Tain Bo Cuailnge?
7. When the landlords redeem their slaves, what do the men and women become?
8. What legendary Irish creatures did the aborigines who inhabited Ireland when the Celts arrived eventually become?
9. In the Irish epic Tain Bo Cuailnge, what was the subject of Queen Medb's and King Ailil's debate?
10. If these White Martyrs had not existed, what major advances in civilization would not have occurred?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Using the text to support your arguments, explain and analyze the Irish copying and publishing process. How was it unique? How did it lend itself to assisting in the later re-civilization of Europe?
Essay Topic 2
Demonstrate and explain, using the text to support your statements, how Patrick invoked the elements to his aid as the hand of a well-meaning God.
Essay Topic 3
Use examples from the text to prove or disprove Edward Campion's statement, mentioned in Chapter 6, that the Irish are "lovers of learning, capable of any studie [sic] whereunto they bend themselves."
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