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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. While the scrolls were taken to the Coptic museum for safekeeping, _______ of the codices were smuggled out of the country.
(a) 5.
(b) 6.
(c) 4.
(d) 3.

2. In the Hypostasis of the Archons, ________ is elevated to being the spiritual mother of Adam, even though other stories contradict this.
(a) Mary Magdalene.
(b) Eve.
(c) Mary.
(d) Ruth.

3. Once committed to the Mother and Father of the world, the candidate undertook the secret sacrament of apolytrosis, or _________.
(a) Blessing.
(b) Truth.
(c) Release.
(d) Dreaming.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. A tradition developed that included the idea that __________ was the first to have seen Jesus after he rose from the dead.

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

3. There are some descriptions of the resurrection that could raise some questions about the _____________ of the event.

4. ___________ was the issue of the day for the orthodox church, according to Pagels' findings in this chapter.

5. Who did Professor Giles Quispel persuade to try to buy the codices in order to study them further?

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