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Name: _________________________ | Period: ___________________ |
This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Jesus says that he will lead Mary, make her _______ so that she too may become a living spirit, resembling the others in the room.
(a) An angel.
(b) Goddess.
(c) Male.
(d) Formless.
2. Frederik Wiss speculates that perhaps the Nag Hammadi find was the results of __________ at St. Pachomius.
(a) Children.
(b) Nuns.
(c) Monks.
(d) Priests.
3. The Gnostic teachers tell the story of the ___________ differently from their orthodox brethren, according to Pagels.
(a) Resurrection.
(b) Temple.
(c) Garden of Eden.
(d) Crucifixion.
4. In Egyptian, Babylonian, Greek, North American Indian, and other faiths, the ____________ is a conspicuous component of the faith, sometimes to the exclusion of the masculine.
(a) Feminine.
(b) Angel.
(c) Genderless one.
(d) Child.
5. The advice of Jesus to Thomas was attractive to the ____________ as it indicated there was only a strict and narrow path to Heaven.
(a) Gnostic.
(b) Agnostic.
(c) Orthodoxy.
(d) Pagan.
Short Answer Questions
1. The language in many texts respects the idea of the female, though not in pagan terms, rather in presenting God as a Mother/Father ______.
2. Where did one of the most important archaeological events take place in 1945 according to the book?
3. Gnostic teachers debated whether or not the Dyad was an actual unified __________, with a male/female structure.
4. The structure of the Church remained in tact for many hundreds of years, surviving even the harsh winds of the _______________.
5. The Church of the Gnostics was confined to the __________, the experiencers of God generally speaking.
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