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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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) Matthew.
(b) Luke.
(c) John.
(d) Peter.

3. Some Gnostic authors see Sophia as the ___________ benevolently having provided the gift of self-awareness to Adam and to Eve.
(a) Apple.
(b) Goddess.
(c) Tree.
(d) Serpent.

4. The Hebrew term for Spirit is _______________, as the author prefers this term from the Secret Book.
(a) Neuter.
(b) Feminine.
(c) Questionable.
(d) Masculine.

5. 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.
(a) Genderless one.
(b) Child.
(c) Feminine.
(d) Angel.

6. There are some descriptions of the resurrection that could raise some questions about the _____________ of the event.
(a) Timeline.
(b) Movement.
(c) Truth.
(d) Physicality.

7. A Valentinian Exposition speaks of God as a ____________, and no one was before him, according to the text of this chapter.
(a) Serpent.
(b) Angel.
(c) Demon.
(d) Monad.

8. Theologians from many Western religions do contend that God is beyond ____________, according to Pagels.
(a) Understanding.
(b) Truth.
(c) Light.
(d) Gender.

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

10. The Gnostic texts call God _________ for punishing Adam and Eve for obtaining spiritual wisdom from a serpent.
(a) Right.
(b) Jealous.
(c) Merciful.
(d) Joyous.

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

12. According to some of the Gnostic gospels, the Creator does not precede mankind at all - there is an immortal __________ that precedes him.
(a) Humanity.
(b) Mother.
(c) Demon.
(d) Womb.

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

14. What kind of teacher was Raghib, the man who told Muhammed that the scrolls might be worth some money?
(a) Math.
(b) History.
(c) Science.
(d) English.

15. What did Muhammed not want to do when he first found the jar during the dig with his brothers?
(a) Touch it.
(b) Break it.
(c) Sell it.
(d) Give it away.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. The Gnostic teachers tell the story of the ___________ differently from their orthodox brethren, according to Pagels.

5. In the Apocryphon of John, the ____________ was the Holy Spirit as a part of the Holy Trinity.

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