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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3, Bede, Lives of the Abbots of Wearmouth and Jarrow.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was finally found to travel to St. Peter's with Wilfrid, according to Stephanus?
(a) Bishop Baducing.
(b) Boniface the Archdeacon.
(c) Archbishop Dalfinus.
(d) King Erconberht of Kent.

2. What animal does Bede claim ministered to Cuthbert after he spent a night in prayer in the water off the sea shore?
(a) Two otters.
(b) A dog.
(c) An eagle.
(d) A fawn.

3. Whose record of Cuthbert's death did Bede use?
(a) Hwaetbehrt who succeeded him as abbot.
(b) Herefrith, a devout priest and abbot of Lindisfarne.
(c) Benedict who was a close friend of Cuthbert.
(d) Wilfrid who asked Bede to take a pilgrimage with him to Rome.

4. What does Farmer claim to be the document that the earliest monk wrote?
(a) "The Life of Wilfrid".
(b) "The Lives of the Abbots of Wearmouth and Jarrow".
(c) "The Navigatio".
(d) "The Life of Cuthbert".

5. Who was the king who Stephanus reported to follow Wilfrid's guidance to win victories over the Picts and Mercia?
(a) King Oswiu.
(b) King Alhfrith.
(c) King Erconbehrt.
(d) King Ecgfrith.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Bede report Cuthbert used to cure a sick servant to a bodyguard of King Ecgfrith?

2. Who does Farmer credit with writing the earliest "Life of Cuthbert"?

3. Who does Stephanus report restored Wilfrid to his see?

4. Which cleric does Farmer identify as coming from Northumbria and trained at Melrose?

5. What does Bede trace as Eosterwine's relationship to Benedict?

(see the answer key)

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