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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. What was the result of the prayers Cuthbert led while he and two brethren were stranded during a sea voyage without provisions?
(a) God ended the storm and provided a passing ship to carry them to their destination.
(b) Angels mended their ship while the two brethren slept and Cuthbert kept a prayer vigil.
(c) They were provided with dolphin meat and calm seas.
(d) A whale came to deliver them to their destination.

2. Why did a demon leave the wife of Sheriff Hildmer as he and Cuthbert approached his home, according to Bede?
(a) Because the demon realized that God would come at Cuthbert's call.
(b) The angels that always walked ahead of Cuthbert battled the angels as the wife of the sheriff slept.
(c) Because Cuthbert had prayed that God would remove the demon before the Sheriff had returned to his home.
(d) The demon could not stand the approaching of the Holy Spirit that resided in Cuthbert.

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

4. What did Bede claim to be Cuthbert's preoccupation when he was still eight years old?
(a) Reading and writing.
(b) Hunting and adventuring.
(c) Praying and Chanting.
(d) Games and carefree play.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Bede claim Cuthbert kept birds from eating the barley crop he grew as he lived in isolation as a monk?

2. What came of a phantom fire that came upon a village while Bede reports that Cuthbert was teaching on the distractions of the devil?

3. Why did Bede address his prologue to its named recipient?

4. What does Farmer claim draws readers across the ages to the lives profiled in "The Age of Bede"?

5. Which cleric does Farmer identify as coming from Northumbria and trained at Melrose?

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