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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through One God.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whose preaching resulted in the belief that the newly emerging religion could and should be embraced by the Gentiles?
(a) St. Simon's.
(b) St. Thomas Aquinas's.
(c) St. Paul's.
(d) St. Peter's.

2. What had happened by 235 CE?
(a) The Christian church had been banned from the Roman Empire.
(b) The power of the Christian church had ended.
(c) The Christian church had become one of the most important religions in the Roman Empire and a bastion of stability.
(d) The Christian church had spread to the Americas.

3. In this chapter Karen Armstrong deals with the dramatic rise of a charismatic faith healer in North Palestine. Who is this man?
(a) Buddha.
(b) Jesus.
(c) Muhammad.
(d) Moses.

4. Christianity became the state religion of ___________.
(a) Spain.
(b) The Ottoman Empire.
(c) The Persian Empire.
(d) The Roman Empire.

5. When was this account written?
(a) Forty years after Jesus' death.
(b) Ten years after Jesus' death.
(c) One hundred years after Jesus' death.
(d) Eighty years after Jesus' death.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Karen Armstrong's research, did this man claim to be God?

2. It was after his execution as a common criminal that Jesus' followers decided _____________.

3. In 312 CE, the emperor Constantine _____________.

4. The Romans, initially regarded Christianity as _____________.

5. Even by that time the historical facts were being overlaid with mythical elements, which did ___________.

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