1. The first pages are full of Old Testament exegesis intended to show what?
(a) That Christ died on a cross.
(b) That Christ existed.
(c) That Christ is the messiah.
(d) That Christ was a man.

2. Herod paid a terrible price afterward. What was that price?
(a) The death of Jesus.
(b) The murder of his wife and children, among other things.
(c) The loss of his power.
(d) His own death.

3. The story of Christ's ascension spread across the world ____________.
(a) Minimally.
(b) Somewhat quickly.
(c) Slowly.
(d) Quickly.

4. He cites Christ's greatness and claims _____________________ points towards this.
(a) The Ten Commandments.
(b) The Gnostic Gospels.
(c) The New Testament.
(d) The Old Testament.

5. Who was the Syrian governor?
(a) Marcius Philippus.
(b) Aemilius Scaurus.
(c) Quirinius.
(d) Gabinius.

Short Answer 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.

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

3. Eusebius will begin with the story of whom?

4. Philo became known as a great scholar during this time and lived where?

5. Under whose reign did famine come to the empire?

(see the answer key)

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