Jesus: A Revolutionary Biography Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

John Dominic Crossan
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 104 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

Jesus: A Revolutionary Biography Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

John Dominic Crossan
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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following did Jesus see as something that oppressed people?
(a) Medicine
(b) Love.
(c) Family.
(d) Food.

2. What kind of seed did Jesus once compare the Kingdom of God to?
(a) The mustard seed.
(b) The apple seed.
(c) The pumpkin seed.
(d) The poppy seed.

3. What is the title of Part Two?
(a) Eartly vs Heavenly Power.
(b) The Jordan is Not Just Water.
(c) Lambs of the World.
(d) A Kingdom of Nuiscances and Nobodies,

4. Where does Celsus say religion took its root?
(a) The middle-classes.
(b) The lower-classes.
(c) The upper-classes.
(d) The under-classes.

5. Who ruled Judea from 37 to 4 B.C.E?
(a) Jacob.
(b) Josephus.
(c) Herod.
(d) David.

6. What does the author call Jesus' principles of true freedom?
(a) Radical egalitarianism.
(b) Commensality.
(c) Radius Linkage.
(d) Social anthropology.

7. Complete the following title: "From Fasting to..."
(a) Baptism.
(b) Fun.
(c) Feasting.
(d) Love in.

8. What power lines does the author say Jesus wanted to break down?
(a) Class power.
(b) Atheist power.
(c) Male and age defined power.
(d) Governmental power.

9. What do Matthew and Luke both agree on in their testaments?
(a) The virginial conception of Jesus.
(b) Jesus escaped to Egypt.
(c) Jesus walking upon water.
(d) Jesus rising from the dead.

10. How did people view mustard during the time of Jesus?
(a) Dangerous and invasive.
(b) Hot and tasty.
(c) A life saver.
(d) Beautiful and plentiful.

11. What concept does the quote talk about at the beginning of this section?
(a) Basileia.
(b) Aesops.
(c) Virgil.
(d) Aenos.

12. What country did Gnaeaus Julius Agricola govern between 77 and 84 C.E.?
(a) Britain.
(b) Germany.
(c) Spain.
(d) Norway.

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

14. Who does the author claim inspired Jesus' teachings?
(a) God.
(b) Luke.
(c) John the Baptist.
(d) The Virgin Mary.

15. What does Virgil say clothes the lambs as the graze?
(a) Angel dust.
(b) Gold dust.
(c) Vermilion.
(d) Wool.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Matthew say Jesus escaped from as a child?

2. Who ruled during basileia?

3. Where did the Pharoah order their soldiers to throw the Israelites' babies?

4. What does Res Gestae Divi Augusti translate as?

5. What is the title of the first act of the book of remembrances?

(see the answer keys)

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