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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does How the Irish Saved Civilization describe modern English and Americans?
(a) Protestant Anglo-Saxons.
(b) Celtic Protestants.
(c) Celtic Catholics.
(d) Anglo-Saxon Catholics.

2. What Psalm was Columcille in the middle of copying the night he died?
(a) 151.
(b) 23.
(c) 119.
(d) 34.

3. Which Irish king does Patrick criticize?
(a) Coroticus.
(b) Cuchulainn.
(c) Ailil.
(d) Diermait.

4. What nickname is given to the people who reintroduced culture to medieval Europe?
(a) Green Martyrs.
(b) Irish Professors.
(c) White Martyrs.
(d) Holy Rollers.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the barbarian who besieges Rome?

2. What vitally important Irish virtue is NOT named on the "Irish Catholic Martin Luther King's" tombstone?

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

4. How old is Patricius when he is kidnapped?

5. Which university is historian Anthony Grafton affiliated with?

(see the answer key)

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