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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 principal apostle of Ireland does Farmer claim encouraged monasticism for men and women?
(a) St. Benedict.
(b) St. Ceolfrith.
(c) St. Patrick.
(d) St. Brendan.

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) An angel extinguished the flames with a mighty blow of his trumpet.
(b) Strong winds blew the fires away as soon as Cuthbert prayed for deliverance.
(c) God brought a torrent of rain that extinguished the phantom.
(d) They disappeared into thin air as Cuthbert prayed.

3. Which of the works in "The Age of Bede" does Farmer claim was popular during the Middle Ages?
(a) "Voyage of St. Brendan."
(b) "The Life of Wilfrid."
(c) "The Life of Cuthbert."
(d) " The Lives of the Abbots of Wearmouth and Jarrow."

4. What official does Farmer report presided over the community of monks?
(a) The regional bishop.
(b) The Pope.
(c) A local abbot.
(d) The Cardinals.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the result of the prayers Cuthbert led while he and two brethren were stranded during a sea voyage without provisions?

2. What was the first miracle that Bede reports that Cuthbert performed?

3. Which Northumbrian cleric does Farmer record as being trained in Lindisfarne?

4. What does Farmer claim draws readers across the ages to the lives profiled in "The Age of Bede"?

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

(see the answer key)

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