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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Introduction.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Farmer credit this institution with the spread of monasteries in Ireland?
(a) Nobles would provide land and funding for construction of monasteries.
(b) Clergy would evangelize pagans who would give to support the construction of monasteries.
(c) When a family would convert to Christianity, it would remain together as a group and convert their homes into monasteries.
(d) The government would raise taxes to support the construction of monasteries.

2. The saints who are detailed in "The Age of Bede" lived in what two centuries according to Farmer?
(a) The sixth and seventh A.D.
(b) The fifth and sixth A.D.
(c) The fourth and fifth B.C.
(d) The sixth and seventh B.C.

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

4. Who does Farmer report to be the earliest monk of the British Isles?
(a) Brendan, an Irish monk.
(b) Cuthbert, a hermit of Lindisfarne.
(c) Benedict, a Roman bishop.
(d) Ceolfrith, a monk of Wearmouth.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Farmer asserts that the "Navigatio" is a fascinating mixture of what?

4. What term does Farmer use to identify a community of monks?

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

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