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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Some claim that the two genealogies of Christ in ________________ have discrepancies.
(a) Matthew and Luke.
(b) Matthew and Mark.
(c) Luke and John.
(d) Mark and John.

2. The author does not believe these discrepancies because one genealogy traces Christ's lineage by _________ and the other by nature.
(a) Man.
(b) Family.
(c) Law.
(d) God.

3. Who was the Syrian governor?
(a) Gabinius.
(b) Quirinius.
(c) Marcius Philippus.
(d) Aemilius Scaurus.

4. The Roman senate considered recognizing Jesus as what?
(a) A sinner.
(b) An angel.
(c) A criminal.
(d) A god.

5. He notes that many of the Apostles were ______________, such as Peter and Philip.
(a) Caucasian.
(b) Married.
(c) Jews.
(d) Single.

Short Answer Questions

1. The story of Christ's ascension spread across the world ____________.

2. Christ was recorded in the census of Augustus's _______________ year as Caesar, twenty-eight years after the conquest of Egypt and the death of Antony and Cleopatra.

3. Eusebius affirms the authorship of the Gospels and argues that the writers were _____________________.

4. Could these Christians raise the dead through prayer as the apostles did?

5. His initial followers were unusually ______________, as the Scripture taught they would be.

Short Essay Questions

1. Who was Simon the Magus?

2. What does Eusebius say about Domitian's persecution of John and Christ's relatives?

3. Describe Philo.

4. What did having a foreign king do to the Jewish people?

5. What does the author say about Peter and Mark?

6. What happened during the reign of Marcu Aurelius?

7. What did the Jews do to the Christians?

8. What does Eusebius say about Gaul?

9. What did Herod do regarding the news of Christ's birth? How did this affect him and his family?

10. What did both Valentinus and Cerdo do?

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