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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Pagels is quick to point out that this book is not an argument for _______________, but a call to learning more.
(a) Gnosticism.
(b) A right answer.
(c) Religion.
(d) Orthodoxy.

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

3. Tertullian later spoke of joining a spiritual church for spiritual people, not a church for ___________.
(a) Non-believers.
(b) Bishops.
(c) The lost.
(d) Pagans.

4. The Valentinians also speak of the birth of _________ from her confusion, water from her terror, and air from her grief.
(a) Mountain.
(b) Earth.
(c) Honor.
(d) Ocean.

5. Ignatius placed the presence of the ____________ as the legitimizing force in administering the sacrament and in holding meetings.
(a) Layperson.
(b) Bishop.
(c) Priest.
(d) Pope.

Short Answer Questions

1. Pagels wonders if it was the __________ function of the Church which allowed it to be kept alive for so many years.

2. It is thought that perhaps some of the texts which were to be destroyed were buried in a _______ where they were later found.

3. The Christan world, it could be said, was and continues to be one of __________ reality.

4. Frederik Wiss speculates that perhaps the Nag Hammadi find was the results of __________ at St. Pachomius.

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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