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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The resurrection was useful ____________, which is why it became such an important part of religious dogma.
(a) Financially.
(b) Politically.
(c) Spiritually.
(d) Biblically.

2. Tertullian later spoke of joining a spiritual church for spiritual people, not a church for ___________.
(a) The lost.
(b) Bishops.
(c) Non-believers.
(d) Pagans.

3. Authoritative Teaching rails against external acts of worship as making so-called Christians worse than the __________.
(a) Pope.
(b) Pagans.
(c) Bishop.
(d) Devil.

4. A tradition developed that included the idea that __________ was the first to have seen Jesus after he rose from the dead.
(a) John.
(b) Mary.
(c) Peter.
(d) Matthew.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. One God, One _________ became the doctrine of the church, according to the text in this chapter.

2. A letter to the Bishop of Rome stated the difference between ________ and priesthood, defining the reality of the Roman church.

3. What is another thing the many criteria did for the orthodox church? It consolidated ______________.

4. There is some speculation that there are actually two ____________ involved in the story of Mary and Jesus.

5. The Gnostics, some said, interpreted the resurrection to be something like an apparition that appears in a ________ state.

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