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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is NOT true about the great Irish prayer known both as "Saint Patrick's Breastplate" and as "The Deer's Cry"?

2. Who was the first emperor to blend Roman citizenship and church membership?

3. What did Tolland Man, Grauballe Man, Borremose Man, and Lindow Man all have in common?

4. What word can be used to describe a "Green Martyr"?

5. Why does Patricius walk 200 miles to Wexford?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do the Irish monasteries, whose leaders are termed "literate druids," become centers for?

2. How are the Irish gods and goddesses are described?

3. What does Patrick call King Coroticus's kidnapping of thousands of Irish converts?

4. 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?

5. How did Saxons understand the world?

6. When Patricius (renamed Patrick) leaves the Ecumene after his ordination to become a missionary to Ireland, what is he willing to do for the sake of the Gospel?

7. Before he was kidnapped, what was Patricius' opinion of God and the Catholic Church?

8. What effect do the decisions made at the Synod of Whitby have on the Irish understanding of the relationship between themselves and Rome?

9. Why does Patrick believe that the Christian has nothing to fear from the world of magic?

10. Why was Patricius turned away when he arrived in Wexford and asked for passage to Britain?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Use examples from the text to prove or disprove Edward Campion's statement, mentioned in Chapter 6, that the Irish are "lovers of learning, capable of any studie [sic] whereunto they bend themselves."

Essay Topic 2

Using the text to support your arguments, explain and analyze the Irish copying and publishing process. How was it unique? How did it lend itself to assisting in the later re-civilization of Europe?

Essay Topic 3

Compare and contrast, using the text to support your statements and including the names of people from each category, the "White Martyrs" and the "Green Martyrs" of Irish Christianity.

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