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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What were Brendan's most important monasteries, according to Farmer?
(a) Annadown, Christendom, Confert, and Melrose.
(b) Northumbria, Whitby, Inishadroum, and Jarrow.
(c) Wearmouth, Jarrow, Lindisfarne, and Melrose.
(d) Clonfert, Annadown, Inishadroum, and Ardfert.

2. What does Farmer claim draws readers across the ages to the lives profiled in "The Age of Bede"?
(a) The mystical accounting of miracles.
(b) The ideals and the scale of values of "The Age of Bede's" great men.
(c) The colorful detail with which the ancient times are reported.
(d) The accurate history of various leaders in the region.

3. Which Irish apostle, according to Farmer, became famous for the founding of the Bobbio and Saint-Gall monasteries.
(a) Hwaetberht.
(b) Columbanus.
(c) Brendan.
(d) Eosterwine.

4. 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) When a family would convert to Christianity, it would remain together as a group and convert their homes into monasteries.
(c) Clergy would evangelize pagans who would give to support the construction of monasteries.
(d) The government would raise taxes to support the construction of monasteries.

5. What institution does Farmer suggest was responsible for the growth of monasteries in Ireland?
(a) The family.
(b) The Clergy.
(c) The government.
(d) The Nobility.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What principal apostle of Ireland does Farmer claim encouraged monasticism for men and women?

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

5. How many years does Farmer claim had passed before the biography of Brendan had first appeared?

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