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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The orthodox church became increasingly suspicious of anyone who claimed the secret ___________.
(a) Gnosis.
(b) Scripts.
(c) Stories.
(d) Pope.

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

4. Paul says that "flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of __________" in one of his statements about the resurrection.
(a) Trust.
(b) God.
(c) Faith.
(d) Truth.

5. The Romans believed in divine authority for __________, which eventually led to Inanaeus' death sentence for treason.
(a) Their men.
(b) Their priests.
(c) Their teachers.
(d) Their gods.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the brothers devour as a part of their avenging of the death of their father by a murderer?

2. While the scrolls were taken to the Coptic museum for safekeeping, _______ of the codices were smuggled out of the country.

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.

4. Tertullian claimed that Valentinus' theology was driven by __________, according to the research that Pagels did.

5. A Valentinian Exposition speaks of God as a ____________, and no one was before him, according to the text of this chapter.

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