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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What do the pagan Irish gods eat?
(a) Fruits and vegetables.
(b) Insects.
(c) Fish.
(d) Human meat.
2. What did Tolland Man, Grauballe Man, Borremose Man, and Lindow Man all have in common?
(a) They were willing participants in the sacrificial rites that killed them.
(b) They were unwilling participants in the sacrificial rites that killed them.
(c) They appear to have died on the same day.
(d) They were found underneath Patrick's church.
3. The night before he is ordained as a deacon, what does Patricius confide to a friend and receive forgiveness for?
(a) A sin committed that night.
(b) A sin committed at five.
(c) A sin committed during his slavery.
(d) A sin committed at fifteen.
4. What is believed to live outside the boundaries of the Imperium?
(a) The gods.
(b) Barbarians.
(c) Monsters.
(d) Unicorns and fairies.
5. What is NOT one of the classic Irish virtues?
(a) Steadfast loyalty.
(b) Grumpiness.
(c) Generosity.
(d) Courage.
Short Answer Questions
1. What were Celtic corpses such as Tolland Man, Grauballe Man, Borremose Man, and Lindow Man examples of?
2. Irish monasteries become hubs for:
3. Who are the druids?
4. According to the author of How the Irish Saved Civilization, why do British Christians not even consider Irish Christians human beings?
5. What word can be used to describe a "Green Martyr"?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is Patrick's view of magic?
2. Although the Irish saw nothing positive in the Viking occupation, what did they in fact establish?
3. How are the Irish gods and goddesses are described?
4. What are the two reasons cited for Ireland's transition from chaos to peace?
5. What apocryphal legends about Patrick have arisen that are familiar to us?
6. Where were the "spirals, zigzags, and lozenges" that decorated the Irish monks' books first used?
7. What happens when war goddesses Nemain and Badb appear in warriors' dreams to tell them what will happen in battle the following day?
8. What do the Irish believe that gods, druids, poets, and anyone in touch with the magic-world are able to do? What is this phenomenon called?
9. Who was described as "the first man in three hundred years who was able to think?"
10. What monasteries did Columbanus found in Gaul?
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