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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The Roman Empire believed that the Christian followers saw their many pagan gods as _______________.
(a) Helpers.
(b) Demonic.
(c) Lesser beings.
(d) Truth.

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

3. The orthodox church wanted to have more controversy in order to create ______________ to basic institutional and doctrinal elements.
(a) Authority.
(b) Fear.
(c) Terror.
(d) Conformity.

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

5. The Gnostics were not only attacked by __________, but also by those who advanced the name of Christ.
(a) Themselves.
(b) Muslims.
(c) Pagans.
(d) Jews.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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.

2. The idea that united Gnostics, according to Pagels, seems to be that the path to God lay _____________.

3. Pliny would often execute those who admitted to being of the _____________ faith, though he would let those go who did not admit to the faith.

4. Paul says that "flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of __________" in one of his statements about the resurrection.

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

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