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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9: Inventing Apostolic Traditions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Mack claim most of the sermons in the Acts of the Apostles are written for?
(a) Roman rulers.
(b) Christians.
(c) Jews.
(d) Pharisees.

2. What is a Christ hymn?
(a) A genre of praise poetry.
(b) A song specifically geared toward God.
(c) A genre of poetry to the angels.
(d) A song specifically geared toward Jesus.

3. Where does evidence for the Christ cult come from?
(a) The Sayings of Q.
(b) The Gospel of Thomas.
(c) Letters of Paul written in the 50s.
(d) The Dead Sea Scrolls.

4. What does Mack claim the author of the Acts of the Apostles set out to show?
(a) Agreement between Christianity and Judaism.
(b) Agreement among the apostles.
(c) Disagreement among the apostles.
(d) Disagreement between Christianity and Judaism.

5. What collection of early Christian texts does the Didache now belong to?
(a) Acts of the Apostles.
(b) The Dead Sea Scrolls.
(c) Revelations.
(d) The Apostolic Fathers.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did the writer of the gospel of Luke write the gospel, according to Mack?

2. Why does Mack call the Christ cult the first Christians?

3. Why does Mack claim that the Jesus cult succeeded?

4. What feature of the Christ cult does Mack claim Paul found irresistible?

5. What does the term "Christ" imply?

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