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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 official does Farmer report presided over the community of monks?
(a) A local abbot.
(b) The Pope.
(c) The Cardinals.
(d) The regional bishop.

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

3. To whom did Bede write the prologue to his "Life of Cuthbert"?
(a) Bishop Eadfrid.
(b) His father.
(c) Christians of who were served by his ministry.
(d) Christians of future generations.

4. Who does Bede claim first chastised Cuthbert for his idleness and his indulgences?
(a) A three-year-old child.
(b) A neighbor who caught him in a prank.
(c) A solemn old man.
(d) His maternal grandfather.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Farmer asserts that the "Navigatio" is a fascinating mixture of what?

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

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

4. What does Bede claim came of the person to whom Cuthbert prophesied his death?

5. Why was Cuthbert inspired to rise from his sickbed in Chapter 8, according to Bede?

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