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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What task is Patricius pressed into doing by his new master?
(a) Blacksmithing.
(b) Training horses.
(c) Tending sheep.
(d) Herding cows.

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

3. What about Columcille's monastery would not have met with the Pope's approval?
(a) It was headed by a pagan.
(b) It was headed by the King of England.
(c) It was headed by a homosexual.
(d) It was headed by a woman.

4. In addition to sexual mores, Patrick had to confront the practice of human sacrifice. All _________ people sacrificed people.
(a) Pagan.
(b) Stone Age.
(c) Uneducated.
(d) Celtic.

5. What are the names of the missionaries who establish monasteries in Germanic lands such as Frisia, Denmark, and Saxony?
(a) Charlemagne and Dungal.
(b) Boniface and Charlemagne.
(c) Wilfrid and Boniface.
(d) Wilfrid and Grendel.

6. Where is the Book of Kells preserved?
(a) The Vatican, Vatican City.
(b) Cambridge University, England.
(c) Trinity College, Dublin.
(d) Aberdeen University, Scotland.

7. Who burns John Scotus Eriugena's book, De Divisione Naturae?
(a) King Charles the Bald.
(b) Pope Honorius III.
(c) King Charlemagne.
(d) Pope Gregory I.

8. Had Augustine read "Breastplate," he would doubtless--according to his beliefs--have sensed ______________.
(a) Heresy.
(b) Kinship.
(c) Spirituality.
(d) Paganism.

9. What council considers the correct date of Easter and the form of the Irish monastic tonsure?
(a) The Council of Orange.
(b) The Council of Nicaea.
(c) The Synod of Whitby.
(d) The Synod of Dort.

10. Who invades Ireland near the end of the seventh century?
(a) Elizabethans.
(b) Vikings.
(c) Saxons.
(d) Normans.

11. Ireland becomes the first _____________________ country as it becomes an English colony.
(a) Third World.
(b) Religiously divided.
(c) Second World.
(d) Spiritually impoverished.

12. Who is Cernunnos?
(a) Lord of the Fishes.
(b) Lord of the Animals.
(c) King of Limerick.
(d) Lindow Man.

13. What does Patrick find the Irish displaying in their temples, on their palisades, and even hanging on their belts?
(a) The heads of birds.
(b) The heads of their enemies.
(c) The heads of their livestock.
(d) The heads of sea creatures.

14. In which school does John Scotus Eriugena teach?
(a) Glendalough.
(b) Palatine School.
(c) University of Dublin.
(d) The Sorbonne.

15. 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) Clipping a person's toenails.
(c) Kissing a person's feet.
(d) Cutting a person's hair.

Short Answer Questions

1. It is Patrick's hope that the Irish will at least accept the body as what?

2. What did the autopsy done on Lindow Man find that his last meal consisted of?

3. Who are among the notable people that the poem "St. Patrick's Breastplate" is said to inspire?

4. Christian Saxons always look to the Irish as ____________ in Christ.

5. What was Patricius' faith before his kidnapping?

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