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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. While the scrolls were taken to the Coptic museum for safekeeping, _______ of the codices were smuggled out of the country.
(a) 4.
(b) 5.
(c) 6.
(d) 3.

2. Theologians from many Western religions do contend that God is beyond ____________, according to Pagels.
(a) Understanding.
(b) Truth.
(c) Light.
(d) Gender.

3. Where did members of the Egyptian government eventually spot the papyri that Muhammed had given away?
(a) Black market.
(b) The library.
(c) Coptic museum.
(d) Temple.

4. Paul says that "flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of __________" in one of his statements about the resurrection.
(a) God.
(b) Faith.
(c) Trust.
(d) Truth.

5. What did Muhammad and his brothers embark on in order to avenge the death of their father?
(a) Funeral procession.
(b) Quest.
(c) Ritual.
(d) Blood feud.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is one of the followers who did not recognize Jesus when he reappeared after the resurrection?

2. Who is sometimes seen as a child, sometimes as a handsome young man, others times as a balding man with a beard?

3. Justin was a philosopher who wrote to the Emperor protesting the treatment of a __________________.

4. The laughing Jesus implies a separation between the physical and the spiritual Jesus and casts doubt on the traditional concept of the ________.

5. The _________ today, according to the Catholic Church, is the only legitimate heir to the humble vestments of Peter.

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