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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. As Cuthbert was traveling with a boy during a preaching tour in Chapter 12, how did Bede report that Cuthbert prophesied their food would be provided?
(a) By a fawn.
(b) By a dog.
(c) By two otters.
(d) By an eagle.

2. What does Bede report Cuthbert used to cure a sick servant to a bodyguard of King Ecgfrith?
(a) Water he blessed.
(b) Prayer and fasting.
(c) A salve brought to him by two otters.
(d) A poltice delivered to him by an angel on horseback.

3. Where is the body of Cuthbert buried, according to Bede's record?
(a) In the catacombs of Wearmouth monastery.
(b) In a stone coffin on the right side of the altar in the church of the Blessed Apostle Peter.
(c) In the pasture that he kept during his time as a hermit.
(d) At the bottom of the lake where he kept many prayer vigils.

4. What does Farmer claim draws readers across the ages to the lives profiled in "The Age of Bede"?
(a) The colorful detail with which the ancient times are reported.
(b) The mystical accounting of miracles.
(c) The accurate history of various leaders in the region.
(d) The ideals and the scale of values of "The Age of Bede's" great men.

5. 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 fawn.
(c) An eagle.
(d) A dog.

Short Answer Questions

1. What official does Farmer report presided over the community of monks?

2. Whose record of Cuthbert's death did Bede use?

3. What does Bede claim came of the person to whom Cuthbert prophesied his death?

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

5. How was Cuthbert's Friday fast broken on one occasion at the vesper's hour according to Bede?

(see the answer key)

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