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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, according to Cuchulaiin's girl, must he do without for one year?
(a) Water.
(b) Sleep.
(c) Sex.
(d) Food.

2. How is the story of the Tain recorded?
(a) By oral tradition.
(b) In pictures.
(c) On cave walls.
(d) In writing.

3. Which warrior lifted grown soldiers over his head?
(a) Conchobor.
(b) Fergus.
(c) Cuchulainn.
(d) Domnall.

4. Who do the poets of Ireland gather to meet?
(a) Fergus mac Roich.
(b) Senchan Torpeist.
(c) Conchobor.
(d) Muirgen.

5. What is the name of t he child who screamed in the womb?
(a) Macha.
(b) Fedlimid.
(c) Derdriu.
(d) Ness.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who talks in bed?

2. Who convinces Cuchulaiin to go for more training?

3. How does the army circumvent the trap left in the road for them?

4. How many babies are born at the finish line of the chariot race?

5. Who does Medb send to kill Cuchulainn?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Conchobor become king of Ulster?

2. What is a warp spasm and how does it benefit Cuchulainn when he fights the neighborhood boys as a toddler?

3. How does Cuchulainn slow down the great army? What is unusual about his technique? How does the army adjust?

4. Who does Derdriu marry and how does their marriage occur?

5. What is unusual about Fedlimid's pregnant wife?

6. What three tasks does Emer require her suitor to complete?

7. Why do the poets of Ireland gather in the section called "Before the Tain?"

8. Why does Cuchulainn spare Orlam's charioteer, then kill him later?

9. Who is Setanta?

10. Discuss "woman's thinking" as the great army nears Ulster.

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