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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the Christ hymn imply about the domain of Jesus?
(a) It encompassed all people.
(b) It encompassed only the gentiles.
(c) It encompassed only the Jews.
(d) It diminished in size.

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

3. Which of the layers of Q is least embellished?
(a) The third.
(b) The second.
(c) The fifth.
(d) The first.

4. What is contained in the Gospel of Thomas?
(a) The myth of the resurrection.
(b) The sayings of Jesus.
(c) Stories of creation.
(d) Stories of the disciples.

5. What does the term Judeo-Christian mean?
(a) Local tradition.
(b) Temple tradition.
(c) Common tradition.
(d) Biblical tradition.

6. What does Mack claim is the purpose of the Miracle Stories of Mark?
(a) To describe the wonders of faith.
(b) To create the impression of a divine power.
(c) To explain historic facts of Jesus.
(d) To explain the supernatural powers of the disciples.

7. What does Mack claim is the link that gives the Christian Bible logic and force?
(a) The link between the Jewish scriptures of the Old Testament, and the New Testament.
(b) The link between the Jewish scriptures of the Old Testament, and the Catholic Church.
(c) The link between the Jewish temple, and the New Testament.
(d) The link between the Protestant Bible and the Apocrypha.

8. What were some artifacts that helped preserve one's culture?
(a) Language and writing.
(b) Gestures and behaviors.
(c) Temples and cities.
(d) Books, statues, and symbols.

9. When would eternal life be obtained, according the Mack's depiction of Paul's letters to the Thessalonians?
(a) In accepting Christ.
(b) At the end of time.
(c) In death.
(d) Never.

10. What does Mack compare the Pronouncement Stories to in Chapter 2?
(a) The stories of the Cynics.
(b) The stories of the Egyptians.
(c) The stories of the Romans.
(d) The stories of the intellectuals.

11. What did Paul's argument do to Jews and Christians?
(a) Set Jews in opposition to Christians.
(b) Put the two together in brotherhood.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Made the two into one religion.

12. Why does Mack state that people become silent when confronted with Biblical information?
(a) There is little public knowledge about the Bible.
(b) People are afraid to be incorrect in their interpretations of the Bible.
(c) There is too much public knowledge about the Bible.
(d) People have too much time invested in the study of the Bible.

13. What is the Jewish story of the persecuted sage also called?
(a) Story of the wisdom's child.
(b) Story of the Maccabee.
(c) Story of the resurrection.
(d) Story of the Cynics.

14. What does Paul assure the Thessalonians in terms of "those who had died"?
(a) That those who died before Christ could still be saved.
(b) That those who died with God will never die.
(c) That those who died in sin would not be with God after death.
(d) That those who died with God will live with God.

15. 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. What does Mack believe the figure of Jesus became with the Pronouncement Stories?

2. When does Mack claim the books of the New Testament were written?

3. What way did ethnic or cultural groups create small social units within the larger culture they found themselves in?

4. What does each of these movements attempt to link Jesus to, according to Mack?

5. What does Mack claim happens when a person brings in a Biblical position to an argument of social discussion?

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