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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3, Bede, Lives of the Abbots of Wearmouth and Jarrow.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Farmer claim that the earliest surviving manuscript of "Navigatio" was written?
(a) At the monastery at Inishadroum.
(b) At the monastery at Melrose.
(c) At the monastery at St. Maximin.
(d) At the monastery at Wearmouth.

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

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

4. To whom did Cuthbert prophesy his own death, according to Bede?
(a) The residents on the island Lindisfarne.
(b) Bede.
(c) Hereberht, the hermit.
(d) Benedict Biscop.

5. What happened to Eosterwine during Benedict's fifth journey to Rome, according to Bede?
(a) Eostewine and a number of monks died from the plague.
(b) Eosterwine became abbot of Jarrow.
(c) The pope beckoned Eosterwine to Rome.
(d) Eosterwine starved during a siege of Wearmouth.

Short Answer Questions

1. Over what issue did Wilfrid debate Bishop Colman according to Stephanus?

2. How was Cuthbert's Friday fast broken on one occasion at the vesper's hour according to Bede?

3. Whose record of Cuthbert's death did Bede use?

4. From whom did Bede claim Benedict bought the unique collection during his fifth trip to Rome?

5. Who did Bede report was chosen to replace Ceolfrith?

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