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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. What came of a phantom fire that came upon a village while Bede reports that Cuthbert was teaching on the distractions of the devil?
(a) God brought a torrent of rain that extinguished the phantom.
(b) An angel extinguished the flames with a mighty blow of his trumpet.
(c) Strong winds blew the fires away as soon as Cuthbert prayed for deliverance.
(d) They disappeared into thin air as Cuthbert prayed.

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

3. What does Bede claim came of the person to whom Cuthbert prophesied his death?
(a) Cuthbert blessed him and he lived many years after receiving the prophesy.
(b) He passed the story of Cuthbert's death to Bede.
(c) He was made abbot of lindisfarne.
(d) He died at the same time as Cuthbert.

4. What does Bede report Cuthbert used to cure a sick servant to a bodyguard of King Ecgfrith?
(a) Prayer and fasting.
(b) A poltice delivered to him by an angel on horseback.
(c) A salve brought to him by two otters.
(d) Water he blessed.

5. To what biblical story does Stephanus compare the event that preceded the battle between Wilfrid's party and the pagans?
(a) The story of Caleb taking his mountain.
(b) The story of Gideon.
(c) The story of the Israelites taking the Holy land from the Philistines.
(d) The story of David and Goliath.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Farmer claim draws readers across the ages to the lives profiled in "The Age of Bede"?

2. Who does Farmer report to be the earliest monk of the British Isles?

3. To what office did Stephanus claim Agilberht ordained Wilfrid?

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

5. What does Farmer identify as the basic theme of the "Navigatio"?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Who does Bede claim chastised Cuthbert as a youth for indulging in childish games when God had a plan for his life?

5. According to Farmer, why is Stephanus's "Life of Wilfrid" unique among all literature?

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

7. 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?

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

9. How did Cuthbert drive away crows that were invading the crops he grew while he was living as a hermit, according to Bede?

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

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