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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Neanderthall the probable.
(c) Menander the impossible.
(d) Nederlander the invincible.

2. Whose capital cities are Lyons and Vienne on the Rhone?
(a) England.
(b) Sweden.
(c) Germany.
(d) Gaul.

3. Even in the twelfth generation, believers still exercised what?
(a) The ability to see God.
(b) The ability to raise the dead.
(c) Faith.
(d) Miraculous powers.

4. Cerdo introduced the ___________ heresy.
(a) Gnostics.
(b) Montanus.
(c) Marcionite.
(d) Valentinus.

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

6. Simon the _________ came to Rome during this time and led many people astray; people claimed he could work magic and was regarded as a god.
(a) Great.
(b) Magi.
(c) Strong.
(d) Magus.

7. The Romans changed Jerusalem's name to _______ and the Church was composed of Gentiles.
(a) Salem.
(b) Aelia.
(c) Moriah.
(d) Zion.

8. 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) Fifty-second.
(b) Thirty-second.
(c) Twenty-second.
(d) Forty-second.

9. He notes that many of the Apostles were ______________, such as Peter and Philip.
(a) Single.
(b) Married.
(c) Caucasian.
(d) Jews.

10. Alcibiades lived in extreme poverty. What did he do later?
(a) Convinced others to join him.
(b) Died from illness.
(c) Regretted this decision.
(d) Gave this up.

11. In Hardian's _____________ year of ruling, the war came to a head and the Jews were forced into Diaspora.
(a) Eighteenth.
(b) Fourteenth.
(c) Twelfth.
(d) Sixteenth.

12. He ________________ various traditional Christian doctrines, that Christ is the son of God sent into the world to redeem mankind and so on.
(a) Disproves.
(b) Ignores.
(c) Questions.
(d) Affirms.

13. Christ's doctrine contains nothing _______________ and neither does his religion.
(a) Special.
(b) Novel or strange.
(c) Ordinary.
(d) Unique.

14. Simon apparently originated what?
(a) Every heresy.
(b) One heresy.
(c) Every sin.
(d) The Eucharist.

15. The author does not believe these discrepancies because one genealogy traces Christ's lineage by _________ and the other by nature.
(a) Family.
(b) God.
(c) Law.
(d) Man.

Short Answer Questions

1. Julian became Archbishop of ___________ following Agrippinus.

2. He discovered that ____________ had preached in India and that some had copies of the Scriptures.

3. Prophesy and _______ persist.

4. He cites Christ's greatness and claims _____________________ points towards this.

5. Bishop Soter was followed by ____________.

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