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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Cuchulain doing while the men of Ireland are tunneling?
(a) Training new men for battle.
(b) Making deals with other kings to help him.
(c) Following them and killing some of them.
(d) Digging a tunnel from the other side.

2. How many young boys of Ulster march off to help Cuchulan defeat the Irish?
(a) Two hundred and fifty.
(b) Four hundred and fifty.
(c) Eight hundred and fifty.
(d) One hundred and fifty.

3. What does the spy find out?
(a) Medb has disappeared with the soldiers.
(b) Medb and Fergus are having an affair.
(c) Medb believes Ailill has turned against her.
(d) Medb is very discouraged and is planning a new strategy.

4. What does Medb do while Cuchulain is with Morrigan?
(a) Send Druids out to find Morrigan.
(b) Send a spy to find out where Cuchulain is.
(c) Send one hundred men to fight him.
(d) Plot with Ailill to offer Cuchulain her daughter.

5. What are Ailill and Medb talking about as they lie in their bed?
(a) That Medb did not get along with her father.
(b) That Ailill was a king before he married Medb.
(c) Their health.
(d) Their wealth.

6. Why does the narrator say it would be boring to tell about every battle?
(a) There are only a few ways to kill a man in battle.
(b) No one can remember everything.
(c) The results are always the same - Cuchulain is the winner.
(d) The details are too hard to understand.

7. What did the Crutti Cainbili turn into after they ran away from the men of Ireland?
(a) Cattle.
(b) Rabbits.
(c) Deer.
(d) Dogs.

8. Ferbaeth is next in line to fight Cuchulain. What is his relationship to Cuchulain?
(a) He is his physician.
(b) He is his personal assistant.
(c) He is his cousin.
(d) He is his foster brother.

9. Medb and Ailill split into two groups. What does Ailill then do?
(a) He sends a spy to see what Medb and Fergus are doing.
(b) He ambushes a group of Cuchalain's men.
(c) He stops and camps for a while because he is ill.
(d) He gets lost on the unfamiliar road.

10. How does the army get the cattle herd to trample Forgemen to death?
(a) They drive Forgemen and the cattle into a narrow valley.
(b) They tie Forgemen to a swinging gate and let the cattle through.
(c) They make him lie down in the cattle barn where the animals eat.
(d) They have the dogs round up the cattle where Forgemen sleeps on the ground.

11. How does Cuchulain kill Mani, Medb and Ailill's son?
(a) He traps him in a wooded area and kills him.
(b) He creates a flood and Mani drowns in it.
(c) He tricks him into retreating and his men kill him.
(d) He stabs him with his sword.

12. The stories about Cuchulain show that he has amazing abilities but he also has a flaw. What is it?
(a) He takes too long to make decisions.
(b) He is not physically strong.
(c) He changes his strategy too often.
(d) He wants to be top dog, no matter who suffers.

13. How does Cuchulain convince Loch that he should fight him?
(a) He stole his wife away from him.
(b) He killed a herd of deer in front of him.
(c) He wore a pretend beard to look older.
(d) He told him he had put a curse on his family.

14. How does Cuchulain get his revenge on Medb for sending six Druids to fight him?
(a) He takes one hundred soldiers prisoner.
(b) He makes plans to capture Medb.
(c) He kills some soldiers with his slingshot.
(d) He captures and tortures Medb's beloved dog.

15. Why was it unusual that Cuchulain killed Lochi?
(a) She was actually from Ulster.
(b) He knew that this would truly anger the men of Ireland.
(c) Mythic war heros rarely killed innocent women.
(d) The druids would punish him for killing an unarmed person.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the fairy put magical herbs on Cuchulain while he sleeps?

2. How does the bull enter Medb's possession?

3. Who is Finnabair?

4. What is one of the bull of Cooley's special powers?

5. What did Cuchulain get the man of Ireland to tell him?

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