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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Finding of the Bull | The Death of Forgemen.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Cuchulain do each night?
(a) Tell stories and poems of his great victories.
(b) Steal the Irish livestock.
(c) Kill one hundred of the Irish.
(d) Set fires around the camps of the Irish.

2. How does Cuchulain trick the man of Ireland into telling him what he wants to know?
(a) By saying he would never kill an unarmed man.
(b) By giving the man his sword.
(c) By pretending to be a holy druid.
(d) By offering him a bribe.

3. The men of Ireland set off to Ulster. When they get to Cooley, what do they do?
(a) Divide into groups and look for the bull.
(b) Surround Cooley and just wait.
(c) Raid Conchobar's castle.
(d) Destroy all the villages in the area.

4. How does Cuchulain kill Medb's pet bird?
(a) He throws a rock at it.
(b) He traps it with a net.
(c) He sends a cat after it.
(d) With a slingshot.

5. How does the bull enter Medb's possession?
(a) It is given to her as a gift from the Irish man who found it.
(b) She steals it from Cuchulain's men.
(c) Cuchulain fights the Irish and the cattle run to the Irish camp.
(d) She trades a bag full of gold for it.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator tell the reader at the end of "The Foretelling"?

2. The Crutti Cainbilli were not ordinary men at all. What were they?

3. What does Medb do as she makes her way through Ulster?

4. How does the army get the cattle herd to trample Forgemen to death?

5. Fedelm is a prophet. What is she doing when Medb meets her for the first time?

(see the answer key)

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