Quiz
Saints, Snakes, & Pirates
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1What holiday do people celebrate on March 17th?
- ASt. Patrick’s Day
- BIreland Day
- CSt. Christopher Day
- DPirate Day
2The time Patrick spent in Ireland as a slave helped him with his later missionary work. What evidence from the passage best supports this conclusion?
- A“While Palladius worked mainly in the south of Ireland, Patrick's work took him back to the North, near where he had served his time as a slave.”
- B“Rather than tell the Irish that their old ways were wrong, Patrick incorporated parts of their religion into Christianity.”
- C“Although Patrick is usually credited with introducing Ireland to Christianity, the Church already had some presence on the island.”
- D“Because of his fluency in the language, he was able to reach members of the Celtic community who could not understand other missionaries.”
3Read the following sentences:
“Rather than tell the Irish that their old ways were wrong, Patrick incorporated parts of their religion into Christianity. Legand has it that, because the Irish celebrated their gods with fire, Patrick added bonfires to the Easter ritual. Because the Irish venerated the sun, Patrick added a sun to the cross—creating what is now known as a ‘Celtic cross.’”
Based on this information, what can you conclude about Patrick’s missionary work?- AThe changes that Patrick made to Christian practices to make the religion more familiar to the Irish have not been maintained in current practice.
- BThe changes that Patrick made to Christian religious practice to adapt the religion to Irish culture were offensive to Christian priests and bishops.
- CPatrick did not mind making small changes to Christian religious practice to adapt the religion to a different culture.
- DDespite Patrick’s efforts to adapt Christian religious practice to Irish culture, he was unable to convert many Irishmen to Christianity.
4Choose the answer that best completes the sentence below.
________ St. Patrick is credited as the person who brought Christianity to Ireland, he was not religious as a boy.- AAs a result
- BWhile
- CMeanwhile
- DParticularly
5What is this passage mostly about?
- Awhy Ireland is called the Emerald Isle
- Bthe life and legend of St. Patrick
- Cwhy there are no snakes in Ireland
- Dhow St. Patrick escaped from pirates
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- Beschreibung
- Quiz am Saints, Snakes, & Pirates, erstellt von Saddleback ARC am 20/12/2017.
- Autor
- Saddleback ARC
- Sprache
- English
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