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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The author believes that the resurrection is what sets Christianity apart from other faiths as it deals with __________, not with rebirth.
(a) Death.
(b) Life and death.
(c) Life.
(d) Cycles.

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

3. Tertullian claimed that Valentinus' theology was driven by __________, according to the research that Pagels did.
(a) Understanding.
(b) Commitment.
(c) Jealousy.
(d) Faith.

4. There is some speculation that the use of ________ was used in order to indicate that God was both Male and Female.
(a) We.
(b) All.
(c) I.
(d) They.

5. In the traditional orthodox canon, the spirit or the _____________ is gender neutral, but this is not the case everywhere.
(a) Pneuma.
(b) Spirui.
(c) Noma.
(d) Spretha.

6. Bishop Irenaeus wrote the book "The Destruction and Overthrow of Falsely So-Called _____________."
(a) Knowledge.
(b) God.
(c) Faith.
(d) Jesus.

7. What were Muhammed 'Ali and his brothers digging for?
(a) Selluk.
(b) Selluh.
(c) Sabe.
(d) Sabekh.

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

9. The language in many texts respects the idea of the female, though not in pagan terms, rather in presenting God as a Mother/Father ______.
(a) Group.
(b) Family.
(c) Dyad.
(d) Figure.

10. What did the brothers devour as a part of their avenging of the death of their father by a murderer?
(a) The royal pig.
(b) A cow.
(c) Their own blood.
(d) The killer's heart.

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

12. Pagels recounts how in the story of _________ that Jesus tells his disciples to reach out and touch him to show he is flesh and bones.
(a) Luke.
(b) Matthew.
(c) Peter.
(d) John.

13. The difference between Plato's doctrine of the soul's ______________ and the resurrection was that resurrection was real flesh reborn.
(a) Movement.
(b) Tangibility.
(c) Immortality.
(d) Form.

14. To Iranaeus, the monotheism of the Valentianians was a kind of ________, a hoax that would allow them to participate in the orthodox church.
(a) Sin.
(b) Veil.
(c) Horror.
(d) Hammer.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Clement of Alexandria talks of a __________ gnosis which was promoted by the Valentianians.

2. The redefinition of who sees Jesus first is a tradition which first indicated that the direction of the _________ more than the importance of the doctrine.

3. Gnostic teachers debated whether or not the Dyad was an actual unified __________, with a male/female structure.

4. What kind of teacher was Raghib, the man who told Muhammed that the scrolls might be worth some money?

5. Some say that the Christian creed was written to specifically exclude ___________ and his followers who were not following the creed.

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