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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the artifacts that represent the Irish transition from paganism to Christianity was a pagan votary offering?
(a) The Ardagh Chalice.
(b) The Gundestrup Cauldron.
(c) Borremose Man.
(d) St. Patrick's Breastplate.

2. Why is Ireland the only place from which the European missionaries can get books?
(a) The barbarians are pagans.
(b) The missionaries only speak Gaelic.
(c) The art of copying is dead in Italy and Gaul.
(d) The barbarians are illiterate.

3. Who was the first emperor to blend Roman citizenship and church membership?
(a) Marcus Aurelius.
(b) Nero.
(c) Constantine.
(d) Julius Caesar.

4. What is NOT true about the great Irish prayer known both as "Saint Patrick's Breastplate" and as "The Deer's Cry"?
(a) The speaker in the prayer is most likely a druid who has converted to Christianity.
(b) The prayer summons God's power against all forms of evil.
(c) It was written by Patrick himself.
(d) It was written in the seventh or eighth century.

5. After he returns to Britain, what does Patricius feel called by?
(a) The "Voice of Ireland."
(b) The "Voice of Rome."
(c) The "Voice of the Vatican."
(d) The "Voice of Gaul."

6. The Irish believe that "the one thing the devil cannot bear is _____________."
(a) Cooperation.
(b) Faith.
(c) Laughter.
(d) Joy.

7. By 1914, four million Irish have left the country due to persecution and famine. What ratio of the 1845 population is this?
(a) 2/3.
(b) 7/8.
(c) 1/4.
(d) 1/2.

8. Why does Patricius walk 200 miles to Wexford?
(a) His master has pity on him and gives him his freedom.
(b) A voice tells him he is going home.
(c) A voice tells him to run away.
(d) A voice tells him to convert Ireland.

9. Like the Jews earlier, the Irish see literacy as a __________________ act.
(a) Educational.
(b) Cultural.
(c) Civilizing.
(d) Religious.

10. What laws are instituted in the eighteenth century to deprive Irish Catholics, specifically, of their civil rights?
(a) Apartheid.
(b) Jim Crow.
(c) Green.
(d) Penal.

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

12. Who are the druids?
(a) Irish nuns.
(b) Irish monks.
(c) Pagan Irish priests.
(d) Catholic Irish priests.

13. What is the youthful sin that Patrick confessed to the night before his ordination most likely believed to be?
(a) The murder of a slave or servant.
(b) The murder of his master.
(c) Sexual immorality.
(d) Theft or arson.

14. Who proclaimed the Irish the only people who cannot be psychoanalyzed?
(a) Alfred Adler.
(b) Dr. Phil.
(c) Sigmund Freud.
(d) Carl Jung.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who invades Ireland near the end of the seventh century?

2. What Irish feasts are still celebrated to this day?

3. Which Irish king does Patrick criticize?

4. After his ordination and return to Ireland, Patricius' name changed to: _____________

5. In contrast to his youth, Augustine's post-conversion views on sex appear to be:

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