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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How did Cuthbert respond to converts who were falling away from the faith, according to Bede?
(a) He traveled to villages to preach the way of truth.
(b) He chastised them with harsh sermons.
(c) He secluded himself and prayed fervently for their integrity.
(d) He ministered to them directly by showing them a life of Christian integrity.

3. Why did Bede address his prologue to its named recipient?
(a) To show his father that his devotion was being manifested in good works.
(b) So the reader would know that the work was undertaken in compliance with the Bishop's wishes.
(c) To affirm he virtues of Cuthbert to those whom he served.
(d) To assure future Christians that the church was founded by men of reliable virtue.

4. How was Cuthbert's Friday fast broken on one occasion at the vesper's hour according to Bede?
(a) Birds brought him bread from a far land.
(b) Otters brought him a meal of fish from the sea.
(c) Cuthbert's horse pulled on a straw from the roof where he rested that was connected to a bundle of food from God.
(d) An angel disgused as an old man fixed him a meal of rice and cakes.

5. Who was finally found to travel to St. Peter's with Wilfrid, according to Stephanus?
(a) Boniface the Archdeacon.
(b) King Erconberht of Kent.
(c) Bishop Baducing.
(d) Archbishop Dalfinus.

Short Answer Questions

1. As Cuthbert was traveling with a boy during a preaching tour in Chapter 12, how did Bede report that Cuthbert prophesied their food would be provided?

2. Who does Bede report gave Cuthbert a cure for a tumor on his knee?

3. In what literary form does Farmer claim Bede's "Life of Cuthbert" is written?

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

5. According to Stephanus, how did the expansion of the Kingdom that Wilfrid advised expand his authority as Bishop?

Short Essay Questions

1. What miracle does Stephanus report occurred during the birth of Wilfred?

2. What does Bede report a monk witnessed when he followed Cuthbert to spy on an evening prayer vigil?

3. What are the five texts that make up the "Age of Bede"?

4. Who does Stephanus claim supported Wilfred's desire to visit St. Peter's in Rome?

5. To whom was Stephanus being obedient with his record of "The Life of Wilfred"?

6. What is Farmer's closing opinion of the texts of "The Age of Bede"?

7. Who does Bede report presided over a great synod that selected Cuthbert as Bishop of Lindisfarne?

8. According to Farmer in the Introduction, how did Irish monasteries become established?

9. Why does Farmer consider Bede's "Lives of the Abbots" historically significant?

10. Who does Bede credit with healing Cuthbert from a childhood disease that made him lame?

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