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3. Early Christian Ireland Quiz

Total questions: 22

Worksheet time: 11mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

A tall building in a monastery used to sound the bell and as a defence tower during attack

a)

Crozier

b)

Tonsure

c)

Round tower

d)

Irish Diaspora

2.

The shaving of the top of a monks head

a)

Scribe

b)

Druids

c)

Irish Diaspora

d)

Tonsure

3.

A hooked staff carried by a bishop

a)

Vellum

b)

Crozier

c)

St Patrick

d)

Palladius

4.

A handwritten or typed piece of writing, such as a book

a)

Manuscript

b)

Irish Diaspora

c)

Scribe

d)

Abbot

5.

Religious community where monks live and work

a)

Round tower

b)

The Celts

c)

Book of Kells

d)

Monastery

6.

A decorated standing stone cross, usually used to tell Bible stories

a)

Abbot

b)

St Enda

c)

Palladius

d)

High Cross

7.

A room in a monastery for writing or copying manuscripts

a)

Scriptorium

b)

Radiocarbon dating

c)

Clonmacnoise

d)

Pagan

8.

Delicate, ornamental work made from twisted wire of gold or silver

a)

Palladius

b)

Historically significant

c)

Scriptorium

d)

Filigree

9.

A corbelled stone hut/cell where monks lived

a)

Excavations

b)

Radiocarbon dating

c)

Stratigraphy

d)

Beehive hut

10.

A monk who copies manuscripts

a)

The Celts

b)

Stratigraphy

c)

Scribe

d)

Book of Durrow

11.

A cup or goblet

a)

Scribe

b)

Palladius

c)

Chalice

d)

Dendrochronology

12.

Celtic priests

a)

Radiocarbon dating

b)

St Enda

c)

Druids

d)

Scribe

13.

Someone who believed in many gods

a)

St Patrick

b)

Sources

c)

Dendrochronology

d)

Pagan

14.

Monk who spread Christianity in Ireland, arrived in 432 AD

a)

Irish Diaspora

b)

St Patrick

c)

Book of Durrow

d)

Druids

15.

A missionary sent to Ireland in 431 AD

a)

Palladius

b)

Evidence

c)

Tonsured

d)

Scriptorium

16.

Missionary who founded a monastery in the Aran Islands

a)

Vellum

b)

Dendrochronology

c)

St Enda

d)

Clonmacnoise

17.

Head of a monastery

a)

Palladius

b)

Abbot

c)

Round tower

d)

Druids

18.

A monastery founded by St Cíarán along the banks of the River Shannon

a)

Druids

b)

Tonsure

c)

Clonmacnoise

d)

Sources

19.

Calfskin prepared as a surface for writing or painting

a)

Vellum

b)

Filigree

c)

Round tower

d)

High Cross

20.

Illuminated manuscript written in Latin containing the four Gospels of the New Testament

a)

Stratigraphy

b)

Tonsure

c)

Book of Kells

d)

Abbot

21.

Illuminated manuscript from 675 AD printed on animal skins

a)

Excavations

b)

Book of Durrow

c)

St Patrick

d)

Irish Diaspora

22.

Irish people and their descendants who live outside Ireland

a)

Irish Diaspora

b)

Druids

c)

Radiocarbon dating

d)

Evidence