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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay 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) Life.
(b) Life and death.
(c) Death.
(d) Cycles.

2. In a newly discovered Nag Hammadi text, it says, "I am __________. I am both Mother and Father since I copulate with myself. I am the Womb, the All."
(a) The Mover.
(b) The Creator.
(c) The Creation.
(d) Androgynous.

3. In 1896, the amazing manuscript called the Gospel of _________ was found by a German Egyptologist.
(a) James.
(b) Mary.
(c) Roy.
(d) Jesus.

4. Tertullian noted the way that _______ were so eagerly accepted in all facets of church society with great horror.
(a) Men.
(b) Children.
(c) Boys.
(d) Women.

5. The ___________, often called the Watchword of the Jewish faith, proclaims, "Hear O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is One."
(a) Spiel.
(b) Shiel.
(c) Schma.
(d) L'chaim.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Gnostics called the orthodox view the faith of ___________, according to the text presented in the chapter.

2. In Christianity, Judaism and in Islam, God is the king, lord, master, judge, and ____________.

3. The Catholic Church bases its authority on the shoes of the ___________, according to the text in this chapter.

4. Tertullian wrote: "...this flesh, suffused with blood, built up with bones, interwoven with nerves.....was born and dies, undoubtedly _________."

5. Bishop Irenaeus wrote the book "The Destruction and Overthrow of Falsely So-Called _____________."

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Pagels speculate united the Gnostics, as diverse as they were in the world?

2. The Gnostics did not stress the idea of obedience to authority, so what did they choose to stress in their communities?

3. Who were the Gnostics attacked by, as revealed in the Second Treatise of the Great Seth?

4. When Paul is writing in his letters, he refers to something that is 'whether it is in the body or out of the body I do not know.' What is he referring to?

5. What is the tradition that developed, though not completely logical and contradicted by two other gospels?

6. What did the Valentinians come to believe about the idea of God? What was He supposed to be?

7. Describe the idea of the social reality in which those who practice orthodox faith live.

8. What did Iranaeus think about the idea of monotheism of the Valentinians and its place in the faith?

9. What is a possible explanation for the burial of the sacred texts in the jar that Mohammed 'Ali found?

10. Why does Pagels suggest that perhaps there was a social aspect to the way the Church wanted to function?

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