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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who did Professor Giles Quispel persuade to try to buy the codices in order to study them further?
(a) British Museum.
(b) Jung Foundation.
(c) His father.
(d) Egyptian Museum.

2. Pagels recounts how in the story of _________ that Jesus tells his disciples to reach out and touch him to show he is flesh and bones.
(a) John.
(b) Matthew.
(c) Luke.
(d) Peter.

3. Some say that the Christian creed was written to specifically exclude ___________ and his followers who were not following the creed.
(a) Luke.
(b) Jonas.
(c) Jesus.
(d) Marcion.

4. The orthodox church became increasingly suspicious of anyone who claimed the secret ___________.
(a) Gnosis.
(b) Stories.
(c) Pope.
(d) Scripts.

5. A tradition developed that included the idea that __________ was the first to have seen Jesus after he rose from the dead.
(a) Matthew.
(b) Peter.
(c) John.
(d) Mary.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did the brothers devour as a part of their avenging of the death of their father by a murderer?

3. The Gnostics, some said, interpreted the resurrection to be something like an apparition that appears in a ________ state.

4. The ___________ of the original Greek gospels by various scholars enhanced the controversy around them.

5. The redefinition of who sees Jesus first is a tradition which first indicated that the direction of the _________ more than the importance of the doctrine.

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