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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. In 312 CE, the emperor Constantine _____________.
(a) Threatened to have the Christians exiled.
(b) Attended his first mass.
(c) Converted to Christianity.
(d) Tortured Christians.

2. Christianity was a religion of __________.
(a) Slaves and lower caste people.
(b) Europeans.
(c) The wealthy.
(d) Romans.

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

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

5. The earliest account of this man's life is found ____________.
(a) In the Gospel of St. Matthew.
(b) In the Gospel of St Mark.
(c) In the Gospel of St. John.
(d) In the Gospel of St. Luke.

Short Answer Questions

1. In this chapter Karen Armstrong deals with the dramatic rise of a charismatic faith healer in North Palestine. Who is this man?

2. Many educated non-Christians were becoming impressed by ____________.

3. The Greek influence on theology formed the core of the idea of ____________.

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

5. Possibly under the influence of the collapsing Roman Empire and the consequent beginning of an epoch of chaos, what ideas did Augustine develop?

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