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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. What makes Patrick angry when it takes place?

2. What do the pagan Irish gods eat?

3. According to the author of How the Irish Saved Civilization, why do British Christians not even consider Irish Christians human beings?

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

5. By what name do the Irish refer to the Christian God?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Edward Campion say about the Irish and learning?

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

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

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

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 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?

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

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

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

10. What is Patrick's view of magic?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Using the text to support your statements, compare and contrast the Irish Catholic church's views on the office of abbot, penance, and confession with those of the Roman Catholic church.

Essay Topic 3

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?

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