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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. To what office did Stephanus claim Agilberht ordained Wilfrid?
(a) Abbot.
(b) Priest.
(c) Cardinal.
(d) Bishop.
2. What does Farmer identify as the basic theme of the "Navigatio"?
(a) The healing mysteries of faith.
(b) The miraculous power of prayer.
(c) The quest for paradise on earth.
(d) The cleansing influence of virtue.
3. Where does Farmer claim that the earliest surviving manuscript of "Navigatio" was written?
(a) At the monastery at Melrose.
(b) At the monastery at Wearmouth.
(c) At the monastery at St. Maximin.
(d) At the monastery at Inishadroum.
4. What animal does Bede claim ministered to Cuthbert after he spent a night in prayer in the water off the sea shore?
(a) A dog.
(b) A fawn.
(c) Two otters.
(d) An eagle.
5. Who was the wicked queen who Stephanus wrote persecuted the church and martyred nine bishops?
(a) Erconbehrt.
(b) Eanfled.
(c) Baldlhild.
(d) Iurminburgh.
Short Answer Questions
1. Where does Stephanus claim peace was achieved between Wilfrid and his enemies?
2. Which Old Testament prophet does Bede first quote in the first paragraph of Chapter One?
3. Whose record of Cuthbert's death did Bede use?
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?
Short Essay Questions
1. According to Farmer in the Introduction, how did Irish monasteries become established?
2. Who does Stephanus credit with introducing Wilfred to the pope and teaching him the rules of Easter?
3. Who does Bede cite as helping him revise the text of "The Life of Cuthbert"?
4. What does Farmer cite as the earliest work of "The Age of Bede," and what makes it different from the other four texts?
5. What are the five texts that make up the "Age of Bede"?
6. Why does Farmer consider "The Voyage of St. Brendan" an important text in "The Age of Bede"?
7. From whom did Bede record the details of Cuthbert's death?
8. Who does Bede report presided over a great synod that selected Cuthbert as Bishop of Lindisfarne?
9. What miracle does Stephanus report occurred during the birth of Wilfred?
10. Why does Farmer consider the lives of the men profiled in "The Age of Bede" important to the Christian history of their region?
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