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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4, Trajan to Marcus Aurelius.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Soon after Christ's death, ___________ was martyred, the first Christian to die for Christ.
(a) St. Joseph.
(b) St. John.
(c) St. Francis.
(d) St. Stephen.

2. Eusebius then describes the heresies of ____________, the successor to Simon the Magus, the heresies of Cerinthus, and Nicolaus from the Ebionite Sect.
(a) Menander the impostor.
(b) Nederlander the invincible.
(c) Neanderthall the probable.
(d) Menander the impossible.

3. His initial followers were unusually ______________, as the Scripture taught they would be.
(a) Hated.
(b) Smart.
(c) Blessed.
(d) Brave.

4. What did Bardaisan the Syrian doubt?
(a) Christ as a man.
(b) The three days between Christ's death and resurrection.
(c) The resurrection of the body.
(d) The death of Christ.

5. In Book 2, Eusebius has compiled the works of Clement, Tertullian, Josephus and __________ to tell a story about the time between Tiberius and Nero Caesar, which covers the period from the appointment of Matthias to replace Judas to the deaths of Peter and Paul.
(a) Socrates.
(b) Philo.
(c) Jesus.
(d) Nero.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Dionysius the Areopagite Paul's first convert?

2. What event closes the chapter?

3. 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.

4. Polycarp died a martyr and his martyrdom was unusually powerful. He was burned alive but for a time ________________.

5. Who else also left behind a defense of the faith?

(see the answer key)

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