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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1, Bede, Life of Cuthbert.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which Irish apostle, according to Farmer, became famous for the founding of the Bobbio and Saint-Gall monasteries.
(a) Brendan.
(b) Columbanus.
(c) Eosterwine.
(d) Hwaetberht.

2. What does Farmer identify as the basic theme of the "Navigatio"?
(a) The quest for paradise on earth.
(b) The healing mysteries of faith.
(c) The cleansing influence of virtue.
(d) The miraculous power of prayer.

3. What does Bede claim Cuthbert did to convert water to wine as he stayed at a convent in Tyne?
(a) He performed a wedding and asked for God's provisions over the reception.
(b) He dipped the hem of his garment in a cask of water.
(c) He spent a night's prayer vigil in a nearby lake.
(d) He drank the water from a cup.

4. Who does Bede claim first chastised Cuthbert for his idleness and his indulgences?
(a) A neighbor who caught him in a prank.
(b) A three-year-old child.
(c) His maternal grandfather.
(d) A solemn old man.

5. Who does Farmer credit with writing the earliest "Life of Cuthbert"?
(a) An anonymous monk from Lindisfarne.
(b) Eddius Stephanus.
(c) Ceolfrith.
(d) Bede.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Farmer claim to be the name of the author of the "Navigatio"?

2. Who does Farmer claim enabled Wilfred to travel to visit other churches through Europe?

3. What did Bede claim to be Cuthbert's preoccupation when he was still eight years old?

4. How did Cuthbert respond to converts who were falling away from the faith, according to Bede?

5. Which document by Bede, according to Farmer, acts as a biography and a local history?

(see the answer key)

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