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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9, Maximin's Renewed Attacks on the Church.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The seventeenth year of the reign of Antoninus Verus, or Marcus Aurelius, was in A.D. _______.
(a) 377.
(b) 177.
(c) 277.
(d) 477.

2. Everyone who sought to have Christ killed eventually __________.
(a) Was victorious.
(b) Pleaded guilty.
(c) Repented.
(d) Died.

3. What event closes the chapter?
(a) Soter is made Bishop of Rome.
(b) Soter, the Bishop of Rome is imprisoned.
(c) Soter, the Bishop of Rome dies.
(d) Soter is found to be a heretic.

4. At the start of the first chapter, Eusebius discloses what?
(a) He may not be completely accurate in his telling of the history of the church.
(b) His plan for his history of the church.
(c) His plan for the future of the church.
(d) He is not a Christian.

5. Dionysius points out that since the persecutions died down, what had died along also?
(a) All heresies.
(b) Novatus's heresy.
(c) Any controversy to the church.
(d) The control of the Roman government.

Short Answer Questions

1. Polytheism was rejected and the gospel was preached to whom?

2. Constantine felt __________ the Christians and took up arms against Maxentius.

3. Justin the Philosopher was martyred in Rome due to ____________ who devised a plot against him.

4. Emperor Constantine was proclaimed what, but he followed his father's tolerance and friendliness to Christian teaching?

5. He ________________ various traditional Christian doctrines, that Christ is the son of God sent into the world to redeem mankind and so on.

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