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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 does Patrick find the Irish displaying in their temples, on their palisades, and even hanging on their belts?
2. In which school does John Scotus Eriugena teach?
3. Had Augustine read "Breastplate," he would doubtless--according to his beliefs--have sensed ______________.
4. Where is the Book of Kells preserved?
5. Who is the first person in history to speak out against slavery unequivocally?
Short Essay Questions
1. What were the "White Martyrs?"
2. 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?
3. Where were the "spirals, zigzags, and lozenges" that decorated the Irish monks' books first used?
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. What happens when war goddesses Nemain and Badb appear in warriors' dreams to tell them what will happen in battle the following day?
6. What apocryphal legends about Patrick have arisen that are familiar to us?
7. Who was described as "the first man in three hundred years who was able to think?"
8. What are Patrick's and Augustine's opinions of each other? Why?
9. What is Patrick's view of magic?
10. What do the Irish monasteries, whose leaders are termed "literate druids," become centers for?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Using examples from the text, compare and contrast Irish society in the fifth century B.C.E. with Roman society in the same period (i.e. just before the fall of the Empire).
Essay Topic 2
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 3
Demonstrate and explain, using the text to support your statements, how Patrick invoked the elements to his aid as the hand of a well-meaning God.
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