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Prologue

1. What subject does the author say history is more complex than?
(a) Geography.
(b) Physics.
(c) Mathematics.
(d) Language.

2. What did Bishop Butler say probability is the guide of?
(a) Politics.
(b) Hate.
(c) Religion.
(d) Life.

3. What is the English translation of the German word quelle?
(a) Pity.
(b) Source.
(c) Religion.
(d) Prehistoric.

4. In which country was the gospel of Thomas found?
(a) Israel.
(b) Egypt.
(c) France.
(d) England.

5. Which Jesus does the author say he is trying to locate?
(a) The child Jesus.
(b) The fictional Jesus.
(c) The historical Jesus.
(d) The gospel Jesus.

6. What is the name of the first vector?
(a) Hybrid sociology.
(b) Cross-cultural anthropology.
(c) Cultural-leanings of the third kind.
(d) Historical fact.

7. How do scholars know that Jesus was not middle-class?
(a) Jesus was a king.
(b) Carpenters could only be members of the working-class.
(c) Jesus was born into poverty.
(d) There was no middle-class in ancient societies.

8. What aristocratic Jewish historian does the author draw on to examine the Greco-Roman period?
(a) Simon.
(b) Josephus.
(c) Circero.
(d) Augustus.

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