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Dalta Quiz

1. There were two main types of fosterage in medieval Ireland: fostering for payment and

fostering for punishment

fostering out of affection

fostering for a bet

2. In addition to payment, medieval Irish foster-parents could expect

that the family of the foster-child would support and protect them

that the foster-child would help them in their old-age

that the parents of the foster-child would take their children in exchange

3. Which of the following was not taught to girls in fosterage?

how to play board-games

how to knead dough

how to embroider cloth

4. Dalta used to mean ‘a foster-child’ and now means ‘a pupil’; which of the following meanings did dalta never have?

a disciple of Jesus

a leader in war

a poet in training

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