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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Pagels wonders if true authority is only found when one takes a journey __________ on his own.
(a) Of faith.
(b) Inward.
(c) To a teacher.
(d) Upward.

2. The ____________ between the Gnostic and the orthodox is echoed in the centuries to come, according to historical findings.
(a) Misunderstandings.
(b) Conflict.
(c) Dichotomy.
(d) Interaction.

3. The orthodox Christian looks at _____________ as a consequence of disbelief and of sin.
(a) Confusion.
(b) Suffering.
(c) Gnosticism.
(d) Happiness.

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

5. The idea that united Gnostics, according to Pagels, seems to be that the path to God lay _____________.
(a) In the Bible.
(b) In the Scrolls.
(c) Only in faith in the clergy.
(d) Within man's own mind.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The meaning of the actual _____________ has created great controversy among scholars and in the world.

3. Both the Gnostics and the orthodox, according to Blake, see Jesus as a false __________ in the history of man.

4. Tertullian turned away from the ____________ movement, joining a Montanist movement that featured a new prophecy.

5. Ultimately, what happened to Justin who writes the letters which attempt to protect those in the Christian faith?

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