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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Pagels wonders if it was the __________ function of the Church which allowed it to be kept alive for so many years.
(a) Guilt.
(b) Sacrament.
(c) Social.
(d) Punishment.

2. The Gnostic focus was on ___________ which was thought to be psychological or emotional in nature.
(a) Learning.
(b) Faith.
(c) Strength.
(d) Suffering.

3. The Christan world, it could be said, was and continues to be one of __________ reality.
(a) Misunderstood.
(b) Celebrate.
(c) Mourned.
(d) Social.

4. In the works of the philosopher, Nietzsche, he speaks of Jesus as being the only true _____________.
(a) Believer.
(b) Lover.
(c) Gnostic.
(d) Christian.

5. It is thought that perhaps some of the texts which were to be destroyed were buried in a _______ where they were later found.
(a) Jar.
(b) Box.
(c) Statue.
(d) Well.

6. The Gnostics were not only attacked by __________, but also by those who advanced the name of Christ.
(a) Pagans.
(b) Muslims.
(c) Themselves.
(d) Jews.

7. The writings of Peter state that the Gnostics believed the orthodox church was an/a ____________ church which claims exclusive legitimacy.
(a) Honorable.
(b) Ruthless.
(c) Imitation.
(d) Idiotic.

8. What is another thing the many criteria did for the orthodox church? It consolidated ______________.
(a) Priests.
(b) Celebrants.
(c) Beliefs.
(d) Power.

9. Peter distinguishes between the fleshly, suffering Christ and the living Christ, casting even more of a shadow on the idea of the ________________.
(a) Crucifixion.
(b) Events at Gesethemene.
(c) Torture.
(d) Resurrection.

10. Jesus tells Thomas that no one comes to the Father, but by ________ when he is asked about getting to the next level.
(a) You.
(b) Her.
(c) Me.
(d) Faith.

11. Tertullian turned away from the ____________ movement, joining a Montanist movement that featured a new prophecy.
(a) Gnostic.
(b) Agnostic.
(c) Orthodox.
(d) Christian scientists.

12. In the Dialogue of the Savior, Jesus says that in order to get to Heaven, when you get to "the ________ where you can reach, stand there."
(a) Town.
(b) Sky.
(c) Mountain.
(d) Place.

13. The orthodox church wanted to have more controversy in order to create ______________ to basic institutional and doctrinal elements.
(a) Conformity.
(b) Terror.
(c) Authority.
(d) Fear.

14. The orthodoxy tried to maintain its power and its legitimacy by striving against any _____________ criteria.
(a) Truthful.
(b) Subjective.
(c) Objective.
(d) Dishonest.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is sometimes seen as a child, sometimes as a handsome young man, others times as a balding man with a beard?

2. The vision of Jesus does not blink and it does not leave _____________ when it is moving in the world.

3. Justin was a philosopher who wrote to the Emperor protesting the treatment of a __________________.

4. Justin speaks of a woman who was converted to Christianity by her teacher, ______________, and then she was a better person.

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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