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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. It is said that at least the Christians had been called by God, unlike the pagans who could be excused for their ____________.
(a) Ignorance.
(b) Idolatry.
(c) Tolerance.
(d) Greed.

2. The author believes that the resurrection is what sets Christianity apart from other faiths as it deals with __________, not with rebirth.
(a) Life and death.
(b) Cycles.
(c) Death.
(d) Life.

3. Some Gnostic authors see Sophia as the ___________ benevolently having provided the gift of self-awareness to Adam and to Eve.
(a) Serpent.
(b) Goddess.
(c) Apple.
(d) Tree.

4. In the traditional orthodox canon, the spirit or the _____________ is gender neutral, but this is not the case everywhere.
(a) Spretha.
(b) Spirui.
(c) Noma.
(d) Pneuma.

5. Gnostic teachers debated whether or not the Dyad was an actual unified __________, with a male/female structure.
(a) Idea.
(b) Monad.
(c) Being.
(d) Movement.

Short Answer Questions

1. The redefinition of who sees Jesus first is a tradition which first indicated that the direction of the _________ more than the importance of the doctrine.

2. The resurrection, Pagels speculates, helps to _____________ the authority of those who believed literally in the resurrection.

3. Tertullian later spoke of joining a spiritual church for spiritual people, not a church for ___________.

4. After the death of Judas, the only real candidate for succession was ____________ who had also walked with Christ.

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

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