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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happened to Emperor Decius and his sons?
(a) They were murdered.
(b) They were exiled.
(c) They were imprisoned.
(d) They were tortured.

2. The Emperor then _____________ his crimes against Christians.
(a) Recanted for.
(b) Ignored.
(c) Supported.
(d) Worried about.

3. What did Eusebius think of Constantius?
(a) He was a god.
(b) He was a great emperor.
(c) He was Jesus Christ.
(d) He was no different than the other emperors.

4. Origen wrote a detailed commentary on Scripture, due to what?
(a) His father's insistence.
(b) God's insistence.
(c) Ambrose's insistence.
(d) His mother's insistence.

5. Who helped Origen's family?
(a) A wealthy Christian family.
(b) The Roman government.
(c) A wealthy heretic woman.
(d) The church.

6. Origen is an important church __________, so he is discussed at some length.
(a) Member.
(b) Cleaner.
(c) Father.
(d) Leader.

7. The heads of the churches are made exempt from public duties for what reason?
(a) In order to keep them separate from commoners.
(b) In oreder to give them more time to devote to the church.
(c) In order to secure their consciences.
(d) In order to preserve them.

8. Eusebius covers Dionysius's views on what festival?
(a) Christmas.
(b) Passover.
(c) Easter.
(d) Lenten.

9. Origen observed what as a child and vowed to charge headlong into the fight for the faith?
(a) The construction of churches.
(b) Religious ceremonies.
(c) Martyrdoms.
(d) Poverty.

10. A fight had sprung up over the issue of whether those people who abandoned a heresy should be __________.
(a) Baptized.
(b) Married.
(c) Forgiven.
(d) Receive the Eucharist.

11. Eventually persecution broke out again, with Maximin producing what?
(a) Awful blasphemes and idols.
(b) New ways to torture and kill Christians.
(c) An heir to the throne.
(d) New rules and regulations.

12. Constantine and his son Crispus reunited what lands to the Empire and men were no longer afraid?
(a) The Eastern.
(b) The Western.
(c) The Northern.
(d) The Southern.

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

14. Paul of Samosata held heretical opinions, such as that Christ was what?
(a) A god.
(b) A mere man.
(c) More powerful than God.
(d) A sinner.

15. The tyrant had to fight a war against the ________________, who were Christians.
(a) Hungarians.
(b) Barbarians.
(c) Turks.
(d) Armenians.

Short Answer Questions

1. Cyprian, pastor of Carthage, maintained that heretics should be ___________.

2. The recantation of what spread throughout the empire?

3. Many Christian soldiers in the Imperial Army had been _______________________ by the Emperor.

4. When did things change for the better?

5. Eusebius reproduces the imperial ordinances from whom?

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