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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Gnostic teachers debated whether or not the Dyad was an actual unified __________, with a male/female structure.
(a) Movement.
(b) Idea.
(c) Monad.
(d) Being.

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

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

4. Marion concluded that there were ___________ because of the brutal God in the Old Testament and the compassionate God in the New Testament.
(a) Two Bibles.
(b) Two Gods.
(c) Lies in the Bible.
(d) False texts.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Valentine did distinguish between the creator, architect of the World, also known as the ______________, and the actual foundational spirit of the universe.

2. Theologians from many Western religions do contend that God is beyond ____________, according to Pagels.

3. The ___________ of the original Greek gospels by various scholars enhanced the controversy around them.

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

5. Tertullian was against the heretics that embraced the followings of Jesus, but who also denied the idea of _______________.

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