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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which class and nationality of people considered the Irish "incapable of civilization?"
(a) Uneducated Englishmen.
(b) Educated Americans.
(c) Educated Englishmen.
(d) Uneducated Americans.

2. According to the author of How the Irish Saved Civilization, why do British Christians not even consider Irish Christians human beings?
(a) They are not British.
(b) They are not Roman.
(c) Their warriors fight in the nude.
(d) They have red hair.

3. How many people was Cuchulainn able to reportedly kill in three passes during one battle?
(a) 130 kings and innumerable rabble.
(b) Innumerable; but it is known that the dead were six deep in a vast circle.
(c) Innumerable kings and 130 rabble.
(d) As many as the sands on the shore.

4. Without Ireland, neither __________ nor ____________ would have occurred.
(a) Evolution; Medicine.
(b) Renaissance; Evolution.
(c) Enlightenment; Science.
(d) Renaissance; Enlightenment.

5. What is the unusual form of apology mentioned in Chapter 4 that is requested by the sailors of Patricius?
(a) Sucking a person's nipples.
(b) Cutting a person's hair.
(c) Clipping a person's toenails.
(d) Kissing a person's feet.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year does the last Western emperor die?

2. Who do the "lions" in the fable symbolize to the author?

3. Which Irish king does Patrick criticize?

4. Who are the druids?

5. What nationality was Disraeli?

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