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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is sometimes seen as a child, sometimes as a handsome young man, others times as a balding man with a beard?
(a) John.
(b) Mary.
(c) Peter.
(d) Jesus.

2. 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) Figure.
(b) Family.
(c) Group.
(d) Dyad.

3. Paul's statements in his letters seem to indicate that there is a ______________ which he will go to.
(a) New leader.
(b) Middle world.
(c) New church.
(d) Third heaven.

4. The finding of the earthenware jar became known as the Naj or the Nag ________________ find.
(a) Hamad.
(b) Hammadi.
(c) Ali.
(d) Muhammed.

5. _______ is the one who says that he sees Jesus glad and laughing when he is above the cross.
(a) Phillip.
(b) Mark.
(c) Peter.
(d) John.

Short Answer Questions

1. In 1896, the amazing manuscript called the Gospel of _________ was found by a German Egyptologist.

2. Where did members of the Egyptian government eventually spot the papyri that Muhammed had given away?

3. Peter distinguishes between the fleshly, suffering Christ and the living Christ, casting even more of a shadow on the idea of the ________________.

4. Ignatius scorned the Gnostic view that Christ had not truly ____________ as this was a main tenet in orthodox beliefs.

5. Pagels points out that the ___________ may be the key building block of orthodox Christianity.

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