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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The language in many texts respects the idea of the female, though not in pagan terms, rather in presenting God as a Mother/Father ______.
(a) Family.
(b) Figure.
(c) Group.
(d) Dyad.

2. The Catholic Church bases its authority on the shoes of the ___________, according to the text in this chapter.
(a) Tax men.
(b) Fishermen.
(c) Scholars.
(d) Carpenters.

3. __________ united Gnostic brethren together and that brotherhood was paramount, not the obedience to any clergy.
(a) Gnosis.
(b) Jesus.
(c) God's laws.
(d) The Bible.

4. What is NOT one of the things which made Christianity an easy reach for the masses of people?
(a) Baptism.
(b) Holy water.
(c) Service atttendance.
(d) Obedience to the clergy.

5. However, in two other gospels, it is _____________ who sees Jesus after he has risen from the dead.
(a) Matthew.
(b) Mary.
(c) John.
(d) Peter.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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."

2. Pagels talks about three different interpretations of the Divine - as the _______, as the Holy Spirit, and as Wisdom.

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

4. Ignatius placed the presence of the ____________ as the legitimizing force in administering the sacrament and in holding meetings.

5. The Testimony of Truth does not confine its attacks to the orthodoxy, but also directs its attentions to the deficiencies of supposedly immature ________.

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