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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What makes Patrick angry when it takes place?
(a) Sexual immorality.
(b) People who disagree with him.
(c) Those who refuse Christianity.
(d) Injustice against the weak.

3. 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 Roman.
(b) Their warriors fight in the nude.
(c) They are not British.
(d) They have red hair.

4. What Saxon hero is shown with the Celtic virtues of loyalty, courage, and generosity?
(a) Lancelot.
(b) Gwynnedd.
(c) Beow.
(d) Beowulf.

5. It is Patrick's hope that the Irish will at least accept the body as what?
(a) Holy.
(b) Clean.
(c) Pure.
(d) Healthy.

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

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

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

9. What year C.E. is believed to be that of Patrick's death?
(a) 416.
(b) 641.
(c) 461.
(d) 614.

10. Who instructs the King of the Franks about a solar eclipse?
(a) John Scotus Eriugena.
(b) Sedulius Scotus.
(c) Dicuil.
(d) Dungal.

11. What is NOT one of the classic Irish virtues?
(a) Steadfast loyalty.
(b) Courage.
(c) Grumpiness.
(d) Generosity.

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

13. Where is the monastery that Columcille founded located?
(a) Iona.
(b) Connaught.
(c) Dublin.
(d) Cork.

14. What do the pagan Irish gods eat?
(a) Fruits and vegetables.
(b) Human meat.
(c) Insects.
(d) Fish.

15. What are the names of the Irish war goddesses?
(a) Ares and Mercury.
(b) Nemain and Badb.
(c) Danu and Medb.
(d) Badb and Medb.

Short Answer Questions

1. What language does Patricius speak at home?

2. What task is Patricius pressed into doing by his new master?

3. Whom does Pope Gregory I send a librarian, Augustine, to baptize?

4. How does Patrick convince the Irish to stop human sacrifices?

5. After he returns to Britain, what does Patricius feel called by?

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