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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. What effect did abbots in Ireland have on the influence of bishops, according to Farmer?
(a) They strengthened the bishops by collecting indulgences for them.
(b) They had no affect on the bishops.
(c) The provided the channels for bishops to influence the population.
(d) They diminished the influence of bishops.

2. What came of a phantom fire that came upon a village while Bede reports that Cuthbert was teaching on the distractions of the devil?
(a) God brought a torrent of rain that extinguished the phantom.
(b) They disappeared into thin air as Cuthbert prayed.
(c) Strong winds blew the fires away as soon as Cuthbert prayed for deliverance.
(d) An angel extinguished the flames with a mighty blow of his trumpet.

3. What does Bede claim came of the person to whom Cuthbert prophesied his death?
(a) He died at the same time as Cuthbert.
(b) He was made abbot of lindisfarne.
(c) Cuthbert blessed him and he lived many years after receiving the prophesy.
(d) He passed the story of Cuthbert's death to Bede.

4. Who does Bede report gave Cuthbert a cure for a tumor on his knee?
(a) Three strangers who were travelling through his town.
(b) The village doctor.
(c) An angel carrying a gold trumpet.
(d) An angel dressed in white riding a horse.

5. What term does Farmer use to identify a community of monks?
(a) The Holy Knights.
(b) The Royal Order.
(c) The Holy Priesthood.
(d) Cenobites.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The saints who are detailed in "The Age of Bede" lived in what two centuries according to Farmer?

3. After he listened to the chastisement, what does Bede report to be Cuthbert's response?

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

5. Which Old Testament prophet does Bede first quote in the first paragraph of Chapter One?

(see the answer key)

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