What Was John Cassian's Greatest Contribution to Monasticism

question 22

Multiple Choice

What was John Cassian's greatest contribution to monasticism?

• A) He wrote the Regula Magistri
• B) He wrote the Conferences
• C) He disseminated Basil's Longer Rules for Monks in the West
• D) He founded the first monastery in the West

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Confidence Estimate

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Confidence Interval

A set of values, calculated from sample statistics, predicted to hold the value of an unobserved population parameter.

Standard Deviation

A measure of the amount of variation or dispersion of a set of values, indicating how much the values differ from the mean.

T-Distribution

A probability distribution used in statistics that arises when estimating the mean of a normally distributed population in situations where the sample size is small and population variance is unknown.