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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Tertullian wrote: "...this flesh, suffused with blood, built up with bones, interwoven with nerves.....was born and dies, undoubtedly _________."
(a) Immortal.
(b) Human.
(c) Godlike.
(d) Spirit.

2. Pagels talks about three different interpretations of the Divine - as the _______, as the Holy Spirit, and as Wisdom.
(a) Belief.
(b) Grace.
(c) Truth.
(d) Silence.

3. The author believes that the resurrection is what sets Christianity apart from other faiths as it deals with __________, not with rebirth.
(a) Life and death.
(b) Death.
(c) Life.
(d) Cycles.

4. Tertullian was against the heretics that embraced the followings of Jesus, but who also denied the idea of _______________.
(a) The Garden of Eden.
(b) The Apocalypse.
(c) The Holy Trinity.
(d) The resurrection.

5. Who took a mediating position with the Christian Church, though they had internal problems as to how to view the orthodox?
(a) Church of Peter.
(b) Valentinians.
(c) Monads.
(d) Marcions.

Short Answer Questions

1. A tradition developed that included the idea that __________ was the first to have seen Jesus after he rose from the dead.

2. When it came to discriminate as to the true Church, ______ pervaded even the sanctum of the orthodox.

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

4. Jesus says that he will lead Mary, make her _______ so that she too may become a living spirit, resembling the others in the room.

5. To the Gnostics, the body of the orthodox church, the mass of _________ believers was outside of the true Church.

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