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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. Who did Bede report reviewed and revised his work?
(a) Wilfrid.
(b) Ceolfrith.
(c) The Priest Herefrith.
(d) Benedict.

2. Which Northumbrian cleric does Farmer record as being trained in Lindisfarne?
(a) Wilfrid
(b) Brendan.
(c) Cuthbert.
(d) Columbanus.

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

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

5. Which document by Bede, according to Farmer, acts as a biography and a local history?
(a) "Lives of the Abbots."
(b) "The Life of Wilfrid."
(c) "The Life of Cuthbert."
(d) "The History of Abbot Ceolfrith."

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the works in "The Age of Bede" does Farmer claim was popular during the Middle Ages?

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

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

4. Who does Bede report gave Cuthbert a cure for a tumor on his knee?

5. What does Farmer identify as the basic theme of the "Navigatio"?

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