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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through A Light to the Gentiles.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Prior to Augustine's conversion to Christianity, he had repulsed any idea of __________.
(a) Chastity.
(b) Patience.
(c) Purity.
(d) Charity.

2. Many educated non-Christians were becoming impressed by ____________.
(a) The intelligence of Christian leaders.
(b) The welfare system initiated by the Christian church and the compassion and mutual respect that Christians showed each other.
(c) The power of the Christian church.
(d) The wealth of the Christian church.

3. What was the belief in question?
(a) Whether or not Jesus was a human person or part of the godhead.
(b) Whether God existed.
(c) Whether man needed God.
(d) Whether creation took seven days.

4. The emergence of the cult of Jesus from the established church of Judaism was accompanied by passionate dispute, and many disciples of Jesus ____________.
(a) Left the Jewish faith.
(b) Started their own religion.
(c) Lost faith in religion.
(d) Remained within the conventional Jewish faith.

5. It was after his execution as a common criminal that Jesus' followers decided _____________.
(a) That he should not have died.
(b) That he was not the Son of God.
(c) That he was only a man.
(d) That he was divine.

Short Answer Questions

1. The question that was resolved at a synod was called by the Emperor Constantine at __________.

2. Whose preaching resulted in the belief that the newly emerging religion could and should be embraced by the Gentiles?

3. In 312 CE, the emperor Constantine _____________.

4. What two philosophers had competing ideas regarding the nature of the Christian God?

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

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