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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Conchobor's mother?
(a) Muirgen.
(b) Nes.
(c) Macha.
(d) Cathbad.

2. Who kills Cuchulainn's son?
(a) Domnall.
(b) Forgall.
(c) Cuchhulainn.
(d) Emer.

3. What is the name that Cuchulainn is first called?
(a) Conchobor.
(b) Cathbed.
(c) Sentant.
(d) Emer.

4. What is Fedelm?
(a) A doctor.
(b) A prophetess.
(c) A witch.
(d) A blind girl.

5. How does Cuchulainn chop down a tree?
(a) Snaps it with his bare hands.
(b) With one chop.
(c) With a live beaver to saw through it.
(d) Using his own teeth.

6. Who refuses Conchobor's sexual advances?
(a) Macha.
(b) Fergus.
(c) Derdriu.
(d) Nes.

7. Which child is reared by the entire community?
(a) Conchobor.
(b) Emer.
(c) Derdriu.
(d) Setanta.

8. How many charioteers does Cuchulainn stop with one fallen tree?
(a) 12.
(b) 14.
(c) 21.
(d) 4.

9. Which girl does Cuchulainn court?
(a) Dredriu.
(b) Aife.
(c) Domnall.
(d) Emer.

10. Who acts as a midwife, delivering a child at the inn?
(a) Macha.
(b) Derdriu.
(c) Deichtine.
(d) Nes.

11. Which king is forced into exile by the men of the community?
(a) Fergus.
(b) Derdriu.
(c) Conchobor.
(d) Muirgen.

12. How old is Cuchulainn's son when he arrives to his father?
(a) 10.
(b) 7.
(c) 12.
(d) 5.

13. Who talks in bed?
(a) Medb and Ailill.
(b) Conchobor and Emer.
(c) Cuchulainn and Emer.
(d) Forgall and Derdriu.

14. How many neighborhood boys does Cuchulainn defeat as a toddler?
(a) 25.
(b) 1.
(c) 15.
(d) 150.

15. How many babies are born at the finish line of the chariot race?
(a) Two.
(b) Eight.
(c) One.
(d) Three.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the killer of the guard dog make amends for its death?

2. How does the chariot race end?

3. Who does Medb send to kill Cuchulainn?

4. What is it that Medb's army searches to find?

5. Whose child lets out an audible scream from the womb?

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