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

2. What happened to some of the papyri when it was taken home by Muhammed, though he did not understand their value?
(a) Given as gifts.
(b) Used as kindling.
(c) Lost.
(d) Stolen.

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

4. Clement of Alexandria talks of a __________ gnosis which was promoted by the Valentianians.
(a) Polytheistic.
(b) Dualistic.
(c) Trinity.
(d) Monadic.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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.

2. Pagels talks about three different interpretations of the Divine - as the _______, as the Holy Spirit, and as Wisdom.

3. In the Testimony of Truth, the text talks of a benign ____________ and a guileful Jehovah.

4. Who did Professor Giles Quispel persuade to try to buy the codices in order to study them further?

5. The author believes that the resurrection is what sets Christianity apart from other faiths as it deals with __________, not with rebirth.

Short Essay Questions

1. When one looks at the gnostic groups, what is the one thing which remains certain, according to the author?

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

3. Why did the orthodox preserve Christianity, according to the logic of Pagels?

4. What made Christianity an easy reach for the masses, while also consolidating power in the Church?

5. Why does Pagels state that the retelling of the story of Eden becomes problematic for those who consider themselves to be Christian?

6. What happened when a Roman soldier expressed his contempt for the Jews?

7. How do the Gnostic texts portray the God that is present in the story of Adam and Eve in the tale of creation?

8. What does Jesus tell Thomas when Thomas requests that Jesus give him directions on how to get to the next level?

9. What did Hippolytus, great enemy of the agnostics, accuse Callistus of?

10. What is the idea that Marcion concluded about God since he found a brutal God in the Old Testament and a compassionate God in the New Testament?

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