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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Pagels points out that the ___________ may be the key building block of orthodox Christianity.
(a) Fall of Eden.
(b) Resurrection.
(c) Creation myth.
(d) Temptation of Christ.

2. The Gnostics, some said, interpreted the resurrection to be something like an apparition that appears in a ________ state.
(a) Rage.
(b) Birth.
(c) Dream.
(d) Fever.

3. Pagels recounts how in the story of _________ that Jesus tells his disciples to reach out and touch him to show he is flesh and bones.
(a) Peter.
(b) Matthew.
(c) John.
(d) Luke.

4. The Church of the Gnostics was confined to the __________, the experiencers of God generally speaking.
(a) Seekers.
(b) Doers.
(c) Knowers.
(d) Followers.

5. In Egyptian, Babylonian, Greek, North American Indian, and other faiths, the ____________ is a conspicuous component of the faith, sometimes to the exclusion of the masculine.
(a) Angel.
(b) Child.
(c) Genderless one.
(d) Feminine.

Short Answer Questions

1. Authoritative Teaching rails against external acts of worship as making so-called Christians worse than the __________.

2. After the death of Judas, the only real candidate for succession was ____________ who had also walked with Christ.

3. In a newly discovered Nag Hammadi text, it says, "I am __________. I am both Mother and Father since I copulate with myself. I am the Womb, the All."

4. Valentinus described the Mother as the Grace, the Silence, the _________ and the Mother of All.

5. Valentinus speaks of a story in which the Feminine Principal, as Wisdom, tries to ____________ by itself, though this does not work.

(see the answer key)

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