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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4, The Anonymous History of Abbot Ceolfrith.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What illness does Bede report came to Benedict shortly after Sigfrith became abbot of Wearmouth?
(a) He was taken by consumption.
(b) He suffered creeping paralysis.
(c) The plague.
(d) Leprosy.

2. What does Farmer identify as the basic theme of the "Navigatio"?
(a) The cleansing influence of virtue.
(b) The miraculous power of prayer.
(c) The quest for paradise on earth.
(d) The healing mysteries of faith.

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

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

5. What practice did Ceolfrith pass on to the monks who joined him in building the new monastery?
(a) Copying Bibles and fasting on Fridays.
(b) Singing the Psalms, reading in church, and singing antiphons.
(c) Copying Bibles, interpreting scripture, and singing the Psalms.
(d) Interpreting scripture and rheotoric.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Benedict's council to those who visited him while he suffered his illness, according to Bede?

2. Why did a demon leave the wife of Sheriff Hildmer as he and Cuthbert approached his home, according to Bede?

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

4. What did the anonymous author infer to be Ceolfrith's method of avoiding the plague that took the lives of many monks?

5. To whom was the letter addressed?

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