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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The Gnostics considered themselves to be ____________, not believers and were despised by orthodox theologians.
(a) Mystics.
(b) Seekers.
(c) Diviners.
(d) Experiencers.

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

4. Two separate versions of Paul's experience in Damascus have spectators hearing the voice, but only one account includes the _________.
(a) Cross.
(b) Storm.
(c) Light.
(d) Burning bush.

5. What did Muhammed believe might be in the jar that he and his brothers found?
(a) Sekh.
(b) Demon.
(c) Reutl.
(d) Jinn.

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. The idea that united Gnostics, according to Pagels, seems to be that the path to God lay _____________.

3. Once committed to the Mother and Father of the world, the candidate undertook the secret sacrament of apolytrosis, or _________.

4. Jesus tells Thomas that no one comes to the Father, but by ________ when he is asked about getting to the next level.

5. A group of _____________was given a month to reconsider its fate, but eventually and happily they went to their death, much to the confusion of the judge.

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