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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the term for "a small group of writings believes to have been written by bishops and others" who knew the apostles?
(a) Apostolic Fathers.
(b) Martyrdoms.
(c) Revelations.
(d) Successions.

2. Why did the literature that the early bishops threw out survive?
(a) It was protected by other bishops.
(b) Christians continued to read it.
(c) It was protected by the Romans.
(d) Jews preserved it.

3. How did Luke portray Jesus?
(a) The manifestation of obedience to the spirit.
(b) A powerful deity.
(c) A teacher of the Torah.
(d) A wandering prophet.

4. Who defended the centrist Christian position from those who challenged it?
(a) Philo.
(b) Marcion.
(c) Justin Martyr.
(d) Valentinus.

5. What two sources does Mack claim Matthew used for his gospel?
(a) The gospel of Mark and the gospel of Luke.
(b) The book of Q and the gospel of the Christ cult.
(c) The book of Q and the gospel of Mark.
(d) The book of Q and the gospel of Luke.

6. What is the only feature that all Christian religions have in common?
(a) Reliance on the Bible.
(b) Prayers for the sick.
(c) Alms for the poor.
(d) Prayers to Mary.

7. When does Mack claim most of the works discussed in Chapter 8 were written?
(a) The eighth, ninth, and tenth centuries.
(b) The first century.
(c) The second, third, and fourth centuries.
(d) The fifth century.

8. What is the common core of the Jewish scriptures?
(a) The five books of Moses.
(b) Revelations.
(c) The Dead Sea Scrolls.
(d) The New Testament.

9. How did Mark portray Jesus?
(a) As a backdrop to Jewish scripture.
(b) As a God.
(c) As a teacher.
(d) As a powerful authority figure.

10. Who was the leader of the empire who tried to have his images placed in the temple of Jerusalem?
(a) Arippa I.
(b) Claudius.
(c) Caligula.
(d) Nero.

11. What does Mack claim the author of Acts found, in terms of an answer to what Christianity owed to Jewish history?
(a) A reliance on righteousness.
(b) The laws of purity.
(c) The Christ myth.
(d) The concept of sacrifice.

12. What was Valentinus' claim about what Christ made possible, in terms of knowledge of God?
(a) That Christ made it possible to know about God.
(b) That Christ made it possible to know God through apostles.
(c) That Christ made it possible to know God by acquaintance.
(d) That Christ made it possible to know God through scripture.

13. What does Mack argue John was worried about, which resulted in his authorship of Revelations?
(a) Sickness and affliction.
(b) False teachings and affliction.
(c) Persecution and execution.
(d) False teaching and sickness.

14. What is Ignatius' second appeal in his letters to the churches?
(a) For the congregations to rise up against Rome.
(b) For the congregations to obey their bishops.
(c) For the congregations to become martyrs.
(d) For the congregations to pray for Ignatius.

15. What do the sermons in the Acts attempt to do?
(a) Validate the claims of Jesus.
(b) Validate God.
(c) Validate the rights of the Jews.
(d) Validate the authority of the disciples.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Clement argue about the "new song" of Christianity?

2. During the time of the writing of Revelations, what does Mack argue the Christians were being accused of by the Romans?

3. What does Mack call the Christian myth, in terms of its completion?

4. What does Mack argue the Gospel of Matthew is a document for?

5. Who is the star from Chapter 13 to the end of the Acts of the Apostles?

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