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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. What feast does the author talk about in Part Six?
(a) Thanksgiving.
(b) Christmas Day.
(c) Harvest.
(d) Passover.

2. What is the title of Part Six?
(a) Presents Sent to Deprave.
(b) The Dogs Beneath the Cross.
(c) Days of Yore.
(d) How Many Years Was Easter Sunday.

3. What does the author say the Cynics challenged?
(a) Class systems.
(b) Dietary matters.
(c) Traditional ideas.
(d) The need for war.

4. Whose writings about Jesus' resurrection does the author examine?
(a) St. Luke's.
(b) St. Paul's.
(c) St. Mark's.
(d) St. David's.

5. What does the author define disease as?
(a) A social stigma.
(b) A personal hell.
(c) A soul destroyer.
(d) An individual experience.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the author say the stories of Jesus' resurrection were metaphoric interpretations of?

2. Complete the following sentence: "careful to distinguish between the rich and the poor, the powerful and the powerless... the aristocrat and the..."

3. Complete the following sentence: "for the faith that was there before, despite, or even because of..."

4. Where was the unnamed woman from?

5. What form of punishment does the author say was frequent in the ancient world?

Short Essay Questions

1. What were the reasons Jesus went to Jerusalem?

2. What effect did the patrron/client relationship have on Greco-Roman society?

3. Why did Jesus' followers reinterpret history to suit their own purposes?

4. What was Jesus' opinion of Bethany?

5. What does the author say about Pontius Pilate?

6. Why does the author think crucifixion was the ultimate form of punishment?

7. Why does the author quote extensively from the gospel of St. Luke?

8. Why does the author think Jesus' followers developed stories about what happened to Jesus' body?

9. What does the quote at the beginning of part five comment on?

10. What do the two quotes at the beginning of the section comment on?

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