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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Jesus eat before the eyes of his disciples after he has risen from the death, according to some accounts?
(a) Broiled fish.
(b) Goat meat.
(c) Rice.
(d) A loaf of bread.

2. What happened to some of the papyri when it was taken home by Muhammed, though he did not understand their value?
(a) Given as gifts.
(b) Lost.
(c) Stolen.
(d) Used as kindling.

3. Where did one of the most important archaeological events take place in 1945 according to the book?
(a) Middle East.
(b) Lower Egypt.
(c) Sudan.
(d) Upper Egypt.

4. ___________ was the issue of the day for the orthodox church, according to Pagels' findings in this chapter.
(a) Truth.
(b) Authority.
(c) Writing.
(d) Doctrine.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When Jesus appears to Mary, what does he tell her not to do, which causes some to question his appearance?

2. What was the color of the earthenware jar that the Arabs in the area found to contain momentous records of early Christianity?

3. In Egyptian, Babylonian, Greek, North American Indian, and other faiths, the ____________ is a conspicuous component of the faith, sometimes to the exclusion of the masculine.

4. In the Hypostasis of the Archons, ________ is elevated to being the spiritual mother of Adam, even though other stories contradict this.

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

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