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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many years does Farmer claim had passed before the biography of Brendan had first appeared?
(a) About 20.
(b) About 200.
(c) About 210.
(d) About 120.

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

3. Who does Farmer credit with writing the earliest "Life of Cuthbert"?
(a) Bede.
(b) Eddius Stephanus.
(c) An anonymous monk from Lindisfarne.
(d) Ceolfrith.

4. Where does Farmer claim that the earliest surviving manuscript of "Navigatio" was written?
(a) At the monastery at St. Maximin.
(b) At the monastery at Wearmouth.
(c) At the monastery at Melrose.
(d) At the monastery at Inishadroum.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What were Brendan's most important monasteries, according to Farmer?

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

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

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

5. Who does Farmer report to be the earliest monk of the British Isles?

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