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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What job did Polycarp have?
(a) He was the bishop of Smyrna.
(b) He was a priest in Smyrna.
(c) He was a professional beggar.
(d) He was a judge in Smyrna.

2. What did Diocletian want to do to Christianity?
(a) Destroy it forever.
(b) Ban it.
(c) Keep it to a minimum.
(d) Legalize it.

3. What did the first 200 years of the church face regularly?
(a) Ridicule.
(b) Questioning.
(c) Persecution.
(d) Accolades.

4. What did the followers of Francis of Assisi own?
(a) Cloth.
(b) Cows.
(c) Sheep.
(d) Nothing.

5. How did Peter understand the Bible?
(a) He took a class.
(b) He hired people to translate the Gospels.
(c) He hired a tutor.
(d) He didn't.

6. Tyndale felt that many Catholic doctrines were undermined by what?
(a) Good translation.
(b) False documents.
(c) Writers paid to add.
(d) Fictional stories.

7. What did Catherine de Medici do after Jeanne died?
(a) She declared that the Huguenots and Catholics could worship freely.
(b) She ordered a mass slaughter of the Huguenots.
(c) She recommended Jeanne for sainthood.
(d) She killed Jeanne's children.

8. What obstacles did Christians face while spreading the gospel during the early years and Middle Ages?
(a) People already had gods with which they were pleased.
(b) People couldn't read.
(c) Difficult social and economic conditions.
(d) No one had time for religion.

9. How did the Romans treat the Waldensians?
(a) They laughed at them and told them to stop teaching the Bible.
(b) They imprisoned them.
(c) They accepted them.
(d) They turned away from them.

10. To where did John Calvin escape?
(a) Paris.
(b) Geneva.
(c) Dublin.
(d) Bonn.

11. Where was Blandina from?
(a) Smyrna.
(b) Nicea.
(c) Rome.
(d) Lyons.

12. What did Polycarp do as he was dying?
(a) He cursed the governor.
(b) He thanked God for the honor of dying for Him.
(c) He asked God why he wasn't being rescued.
(d) He recanted his faith.

13. Who were the only people who could read the Bible according to the Romans?
(a) Only fathers.
(b) Nobody could.
(c) Only the monks.
(d) Only priests.

14. What did Arius deny?
(a) The resurrection.
(b) The doctrine of the Trinity.
(c) Christianity.
(d) The New Testament.

15. Where did Jeanne go to spread the Gospel?
(a) Paris.
(b) To Germany.
(c) Aberdeen,
(d) To her neighborhood.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Augstine find forgiveness that led to his conversion?

2. What turned Peter to God?

3. How did the author feel that God responded to the church?

4. What was the supreme guide of the church according to John Wycliffe?

5. Why were people opposed to Calvin?

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