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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What term does Farmer use to identify a community of monks?
2. How does Bede claim Cuthbert kept birds from eating the barley crop he grew as he lived in isolation as a monk?
3. In what literary form does Farmer claim Bede's "Life of Cuthbert" is written?
4. What animal does Bede claim ministered to Cuthbert after he spent a night in prayer in the water off the sea shore?
5. What came of a phantom fire that came upon a village while Bede reports that Cuthbert was teaching on the distractions of the devil?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why was Wilfred sent to prison, according to Stephanus?
2. According to Farmer in the Introduction, how did Irish monasteries become established?
3. What does Bede report a monk witnessed when he followed Cuthbert to spy on an evening prayer vigil?
4. Who does Stephanus credit with introducing Wilfred to the pope and teaching him the rules of Easter?
5. Who does Stephanus claim supported Wilfred's desire to visit St. Peter's in Rome?
6. Why does Stephanus claim that King Egfrith and his queen, Iurminburgh, conspired to remove Wilfred from his position as bishop?
7. Why does Farmer consider "The Voyage of St. Brendan" an important text in "The Age of Bede"?
8. Who does Bede credit with healing Cuthbert from a childhood disease that made him lame?
9. From whom did Bede record the details of Cuthbert's death?
10. How does Stephanus report King Theodoric of the Franks rejected a letter requesting Wilfred be returned dead or alive to his see to face trial?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Ceolfrith made pilgrimages to Rome and Europe with Benedict. Detail two contributions to British Christianity that Ceolfrith assisted Benedict bringing from their pilgrimages, and explain how those contributions have helped to shape Christian thoughts and practices today.
Essay Topic 2
Ceolfrith, Eosterwin, Sigfrith, and Hwaetbehrt all made different contributions to the Abbeys at Wearmouth and Jarrow. Choose two of the abbots and detail a contribution each made to the abbey and how the separate contributions worked together to strengthen the mission of the abbeys.
Essay Topic 3
Identify three events in "The Life of Cuthbert" that are historically reasonable and coinciding miraculous or mystical events that occurred during those events. Use the intermingling of history with the miraculous to establish a pattern that can define Bede's purpose for writing "The Life of Cuthbert." Was it to entertain, teach, evangelize, or is there another purpose that you see.
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