The Gnostic Gospels Quiz | Eight Week Quiz D

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The Gnostic Gospels Quiz | Eight Week Quiz D

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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

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) 3.
(d) 6.

2. What was the color of the earthenware jar that the Arabs in the area found to contain momentous records of early Christianity?
(a) White.
(b) Red.
(c) Black.
(d) Blue.

3. Pagels points out that it was __________ that ultimately expelled the Valentinians who strove to maintain their membership.
(a) The Jews.
(b) The Romans.
(c) The Church.
(d) The Gnostics.

4. It is the mixing of the _________________ with normal humanity that engenders the interpretation of the birth of Jesus.
(a) Truth.
(b) Divine.
(c) Longing.
(d) Sinful.

5. The language in many texts respects the idea of the female, though not in pagan terms, rather in presenting God as a Mother/Father ______.
(a) Group.
(b) Family.
(c) Figure.
(d) Dyad.

Short Answer Questions

1. A __________ tourist in 1769 bought a Coptic codex near Thebes, which helped to explain more about the time period of the gospels.

2. The Gnostic texts call God _________ for punishing Adam and Eve for obtaining spiritual wisdom from a serpent.

3. There are some descriptions of the resurrection that could raise some questions about the _____________ of the event.

4. The resurrection, Pagels speculates, helps to _____________ the authority of those who believed literally in the resurrection.

5. When Jesus appears to Mary, what does he tell her not to do, which causes some to question his appearance?

(see the answer key)

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