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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. How does the toddler Cuchulainn defeat the neighborhood boys?
(a) By puking on them.
(b) By telling their mothers.
(c) By going into a warp spasm.
(d) By throwing a tantrum.

4. Who is impressed with Cuchulainn's tree-chopping?
(a) Domnall.
(b) Ailill.
(c) Fergus.
(d) Medb.

5. What does Cuchulainn do to the charioteers stopped by the fallen tree?
(a) Decapitates them.
(b) Burns them.
(c) Ties the up.
(d) Takes them back to the castle.

6. Why is Medb convinced the Ulster men will be easily defeated?
(a) They are wimps.
(b) They are having labor pains.
(c) They have no hero to lead them.
(d) They are untrained in war.

7. Whose child lets out an audible scream from the womb?
(a) Fedlimid.
(b) Derdriu.
(c) Nes.
(d) Macha.

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

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

10. Who kills a guard dog?
(a) Macha.
(b) Conchorbor.
(c) Fergus.
(d) Cuchulainn.

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

12. What board game does Cuchulainn like as a child?
(a) Checkers.
(b) Yaschmatzi.
(c) Fidchell.
(d) Celtic Tic Tac Toe.

13. Who is sent to find the story of "Tain Bo Cuailnge?"
(a) Muirgen.
(b) Fergus.
(c) Senchan.
(d) A group of young scholars.

14. Which husband bragged that his wife could beat the fastest chariot?
(a) Ulster.
(b) Senchan.
(c) Crunniuc.
(d) Fergus.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Cuchulainn kill the charioteer who did not follow his orders?

2. Of which community does Fergus rule as king?

3. What is the one thing the woman who is talking in bed lacks?

4. What is the name of Conchobor's sister?

5. How many marauders attacked Ulster when Cuchulainn had to save it?

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