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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. According to Farmer, each of the saints profiled in "The Age of Bede" were pioneers of what important church institutions?
(a) The Sacraments, baptism, and confession.
(b) Indulgences, monasticism, and chanting.
(c) Monasticism and the primacy of the spiritual.
(d) The presbytery and the Holy Roman Empire.

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

3. What was the first miracle that Bede reports that Cuthbert performed?
(a) He healed a sick boy near death.
(b) He healed himself of a lame leg.
(c) He brought a sheriff's wife back to life.
(d) He calmed a wind that had nearly blown rafts carrying monks to sea with his prayers.

4. How does Bede claim Cuthbert kept birds from eating the barley crop he grew as he lived in isolation as a monk?
(a) He said, ". . . If God has given you permission, then do as He bade you: if not, be off with you, . . ."
(b) He kept a week-long prayer and fast to appeal to God to deliver his crops from the offending birds.
(c) He said, "God will banish your souls to condemnation should you be robbing from His anointed."
(d) He invented the scarecrow.

5. In what literary form does Farmer claim Bede's "Life of Cuthbert" is written?
(a) Biography.
(b) Hagiography.
(c) Iambic Pentameter.
(d) Prose.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Farmer report came of Cuthbert after he spent many years in a monastery?

2. What institution does Farmer suggest was responsible for the growth of monasteries in Ireland?

3. What does Bede claim Cuthbert did to convert water to wine as he stayed at a convent in Tyne?

4. What effect did abbots in Ireland have on the influence of bishops, according to Farmer?

5. Who does Farmer claim enabled Wilfred to travel to visit other churches through Europe?

(see the answer key)

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