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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The Testimony of Truth does not confine its attacks to the orthodoxy, but also directs its attentions to the deficiencies of supposedly immature ________.
(a) Pagans.
(b) Rebels.
(c) Christians.
(d) Gnostics.

2. The Gnostics called the orthodox view the faith of ___________, according to the text presented in the chapter.
(a) No one.
(b) Fools.
(c) The Lost.
(d) Sheep.

3. The orthodoxy tried to maintain its power and its legitimacy by striving against any _____________ criteria.
(a) Subjective.
(b) Dishonest.
(c) Objective.
(d) Truthful.

4. Authoritative Teaching rails against external acts of worship as making so-called Christians worse than the __________.
(a) Bishop.
(b) Pope.
(c) Devil.
(d) Pagans.

5. Sophia further assists Adam and Eve when she saves their descendants during the time of ____________.
(a) The crucifixion.
(b) Passover.
(c) Noah's ark.
(d) The Black Plague.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Jesus appears to Mary, what does he tell her not to do, which causes some to question his appearance?

2. Some Gnostic authors see Sophia as the ___________ benevolently having provided the gift of self-awareness to Adam and to Eve.

3. Gnostic teachers debated whether or not the Dyad was an actual unified __________, with a male/female structure.

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

5. The resurrection was useful ____________, which is why it became such an important part of religious dogma.

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