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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. What role did women play in associations?
(a) Women served as members, patrons, and leaders.
(b) Women played the role of caretaker to the association.
(c) Women played no role in associations.
(d) Women played a role supportive to the men.

2. What are the two activities Mack gives credit to in terms of the creation of Christian beliefs?
(a) Social disintegration and intellectual stimulus.
(b) Social conflict and experimentation.
(c) Social formation and mythmaking.
(d) Apocalyptic preaching and fantasy.

3. What does Mack claim the kingdom of God represented?
(a) An alternative to the current society.
(b) An alternative to simple death.
(c) An alternative to purgatory.
(d) An alternative to hell.

4. What two words came to represent the debate between power and the divine law of nature?
(a) King and tyrant.
(b) Nature and tyrants.
(c) Power and nature.
(d) Priests and rulers.

5. In the temple-state model of civilization, what system does the priest represent?
(a) Power.
(b) Salvation.
(c) Purity.
(d) Logic.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does evidence for the Christ cult come from?

2. Which of the layers of Q is least embellished?

3. What does the passage in Romans 3:21-26 say about why Jesus' death was effective?

4. What does Paul ask Philemon to do with Onesimus?

5. What do the pillars in the Jerusalem group do that other Jesus movements do not?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the fifth Jesus movement discussed in the book, and what is/are the primary components of the movement's teachings?

2. Explain why Mack believes Galilee was the perfect place for social experimentation.

3. What were the three ideas that groups gathered around that resulted in the Jesus movements?

4. What is the second Jesus movement discussed in the book, and what is/are the primary components of the movement's teachings?

5. Explain the findings of Carsten Thiede, Mack's response, and what this argument shows.

6. What does Mack say about the Bible in early American history?

7. Explain what was meant by Jesus in referring to his body as the bread, and his blood as the wine.

8. Describe the two major aspects in which the Christ cult differed from the Jesus movements.

9. What three factors surfaced as questions to answer that would help the different culture's relate to one another, and why were they important?

10. What are the four types of material within the letters to the Corinthians?

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