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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The difference between Plato's doctrine of the soul's ______________ and the resurrection was that resurrection was real flesh reborn.
(a) Form.
(b) Tangibility.
(c) Immortality.
(d) Movement.

2. The Gnostics called the orthodox view the faith of ___________, according to the text presented in the chapter.
(a) Fools.
(b) No one.
(c) The Lost.
(d) Sheep.

3. A __________ tourist in 1769 bought a Coptic codex near Thebes, which helped to explain more about the time period of the gospels.
(a) Scottish.
(b) Moroccan.
(c) English.
(d) Turkish.

4. Who did Professor Giles Quispel persuade to try to buy the codices in order to study them further?
(a) British Museum.
(b) Jung Foundation.
(c) Egyptian Museum.
(d) His father.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened to some of the papyri when it was taken home by Muhammed, though he did not understand their value?

2. How many leather bound papyri were in the jar when Muhammed finally broke it open with his knife?

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

4. In the Testimony of Truth, the text talks of a benign ____________ and a guileful Jehovah.

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

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