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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. Who does Farmer claim enabled Wilfred to travel to visit other churches through Europe?
(a) Dalfinus.
(b) Enfleda, Queen of Northumbria.
(c) Bishop Colman.
(d) Alhfrith.

2. Why does Farmer credit this institution with the spread of monasteries in Ireland?
(a) Clergy would evangelize pagans who would give to support the 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) The government would raise taxes to support the construction of monasteries.
(d) Nobles would provide land and funding for construction of monasteries.

3. What was the first miracle that Bede reports that Cuthbert performed?
(a) He calmed a wind that had nearly blown rafts carrying monks to sea with his prayers.
(b) He brought a sheriff's wife back to life.
(c) He healed himself of a lame leg.
(d) He healed a sick boy near death.

4. Which Northumbrian cleric does Farmer record as being trained in Lindisfarne?
(a) Brendan.
(b) Wilfrid
(c) Cuthbert.
(d) Columbanus.

5. Whose record of Cuthbert's death did Bede use?
(a) Herefrith, a devout priest and abbot of Lindisfarne.
(b) Benedict who was a close friend of Cuthbert.
(c) Hwaetbehrt who succeeded him as abbot.
(d) Wilfrid who asked Bede to take a pilgrimage with him to Rome.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who did Bede report reviewed and revised his work?

2. What were two things that Bede said he avoided in the prologue?

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

4. Of what does Stephanus claim Wilfrid accused English bishops prior to his journey to Gaul?

5. What does Stephanus claim was the King's response to the request that Wilfrid be sent to the duke?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why does Farmer consider the lives of the men profiled in "The Age of Bede" important to the Christian history of their region?

3. Who does Farmer identify as the two subjects from "The Age of Bede" who were from Northumbria?

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

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

6. What unique power does Bede claim that Cuthbert's prayers held?

7. Who does Stephanus credit with introducing Wilfred to the pope and teaching him the rules of Easter?

8. How does Stephanus report King Theodoric of the Franks rejected a letter requesting Wilfred be returned dead or alive to his see to face trial?

9. From whom did Bede record the details of Cuthbert's death?

10. Why does Farmer consider "The Voyage of St. Brendan" an important text in "The Age of Bede"?

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