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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3, Vespasian to Trajan.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Christ was recorded in the census of Augustus's _______________ year as Caesar, twenty-eight years after the conquest of Egypt and the death of Antony and Cleopatra.
(a) Forty-second.
(b) Twenty-second.
(c) Fifty-second.
(d) Thirty-second.

2. Against whom had the Jews devised various plots?
(a) The Buddhists.
(b) The Muslims.
(c) The Hindus.
(d) The Christians.

3. Who did Josephus seek to write a whole history of?
(a) The Hindu people.
(b) The Christian people.
(c) The Jewish people.
(d) The Muslim people.

4. Where did Peter end his days as did Paul?
(a) In Athens.
(b) In Paris.
(c) In Rome.
(d) In Alexandria.

5. The Roman senate considered recognizing Jesus as what?
(a) A god.
(b) A criminal.
(c) A sinner.
(d) An angel.

Short Answer Questions

1. Philo could hold his own with anyone and was a great fan of who?

2. Eusebius then describes the heresies of ____________, the successor to Simon the Magus, the heresies of Cerinthus, and Nicolaus from the Ebionite Sect.

3. Everyone who sought to have Christ killed eventually __________.

4. Herod, as many know, heard of Christ's birth from whom and sought to have him killed?

5. The author does not believe these discrepancies because one genealogy traces Christ's lineage by _________ and the other by nature.

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