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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Epilogue: The Fascination of the Bible.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mack say the Christ cult laid the foundation for?
(a) A distinctly Christian mentality.
(b) A battle between the Christ cult and the Jesus movements.
(c) A Roman-Christian war.
(d) The Church.

2. 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.

3. What notion does Mack believe generated enough excitement to influence the formation of different Jesus groups?
(a) The concept of Jesus as son of God.
(b) The kingdom of God.
(c) The power of the state.
(d) The power of Jesus.

4. What does Mack claim about the authors of the sections in the New Testament?
(a) They were uneducated militants, rebelling against the Church.
(b) They were descendants of Jesus.
(c) They are the people each section is attributed to.
(d) They are not the people each section is attributed to.

5. When did Jesus Movements start in Galilee?
(a) At the end of the last century, B.C.E.
(b) During the 30s of the first century.
(c) In the late first century.
(d) During the 20s of the second century.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did the Jesus movement begin their change to the Christ cult?

2. When does Mack claim most of the works discussed in Chapter 8 were written?

3. What does Mack argue John was worried about, which resulted in his authorship of Revelations?

4. What does Mack claim the author of the Acts of the Apostles set out to show?

5. What did Justin argue to the Romans about Christianity?

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