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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Famine, pestilence and war struck _________________.
(a) Slowly all at once.
(b) Quickly one after another.
(c) Slowly one after another.
(d) Quckly all at once.

2. Many bishops ___________ Origen.
(a) Hated.
(b) Worried about.
(c) Ignored.
(d) Admired.

3. What does Eusebius instruct Paulinus to do?
(a) Put the seal on the book.
(b) Give copies of the book to the church leaders.
(c) Print the book.
(d) Hide the book.

4. Eusebius ends the chapter in an appendix discussing ____________.
(a) The Bible.
(b) Jesus Christ.
(c) These Christian soldiers.
(d) The Emperor.

5. Dionysius points out that since the persecutions died down, what had died along also?
(a) Any controversy to the church.
(b) Novatus's heresy.
(c) The control of the Roman government.
(d) All heresies.

6. Origen observed what as a child and vowed to charge headlong into the fight for the faith?
(a) Religious ceremonies.
(b) Poverty.
(c) Martyrdoms.
(d) The construction of churches.

7. Eventually persecution broke out again, with Maximin producing what?
(a) Awful blasphemes and idols.
(b) New rules and regulations.
(c) An heir to the throne.
(d) New ways to torture and kill Christians.

8. The churches are all reestablished and dedication ceremonies are held where?
(a) In the squares.
(b) In large cathedrals.
(c) In all the churches.
(d) In the streets.

9. Eusebius recounts the deaths of whom?
(a) The Apostles.
(b) The Christians.
(c) The Bishops.
(d) The tyrants.

10. Dionysius then wrote another letter, recording whose view?
(a) Cornelius'.
(b) Cyprian's.
(c) Stephen's.
(d) His own.

11. Licininus was envious of his master _______________ and launched an "unholy, all-out war against him."
(a) God.
(b) Crispus.
(c) Constantine.
(d) Jesus Christ.

12. Who is the Bishop of Tyre?
(a) Paulinus.
(b) Piso.
(c) Probus.
(d) Proculus.

13. Eusebius will draw primarily from ____________, the Bishop of Alexandria, for his history of the period between Gallus and Gallienus.
(a) Dionysius.
(b) Quartinus.
(c) Balbinus.
(d) Magnus.

14. Eusebius discusses the martyrs of the day and reproduces Maximin's rescript justifying what?
(a) His persecution of Christians.
(b) His purpose as a ruler.
(c) His Christian beliefs.
(d) His change in ideas.

15. God restored peace in the election of ____________.
(a) Crispus.
(b) Constans I.
(c) Constantius II.
(d) Constantine.

Short Answer Questions

1. Dionysius affirms the canonicity of __________ against many Christian critics.

2. Cyprian, pastor of Carthage, maintained that heretics should be ___________.

3. How did Mani imitate this man?

4. What happened to the churches?

5. A fight had sprung up over the issue of whether those people who abandoned a heresy should be __________.

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