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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. There are some descriptions of the resurrection that could raise some questions about the _____________ of the event.
(a) Physicality.
(b) Timeline.
(c) Movement.
(d) Truth.

2. A tradition developed that included the idea that __________ was the first to have seen Jesus after he rose from the dead.
(a) Matthew.
(b) Peter.
(c) Mary.
(d) John.

3. In the Gospel of Thomas, Peter tells Mary to leave them because _________ are not worthy of life, but Jesus responds.
(a) Women.
(b) Men.
(c) They.
(d) The Apostles.

4. Tertullian was against the heretics that embraced the followings of Jesus, but who also denied the idea of _______________.
(a) The Garden of Eden.
(b) The Holy Trinity.
(c) The resurrection.
(d) The Apocalypse.

5. Valentinus described the Mother as the Grace, the Silence, the _________ and the Mother of All.
(a) Air.
(b) Dress.
(c) Womb.
(d) Chalice.

Short Answer Questions

1. Pagels recounts how in the story of _________ that Jesus tells his disciples to reach out and touch him to show he is flesh and bones.

2. The Gnostic author had nothing but contempt for a congregation of seekers that sought to avoid the firm citadel of Christan ___________.

3. Marcus the ______ received his visions in feminine form and in his Gnostic masses represented her blood as wine.

4. It is the mixing of the _________________ with normal humanity that engenders the interpretation of the birth of Jesus.

5. Authoritative Teaching rails against external acts of worship as making so-called Christians worse than the __________.

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