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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Mani imitate this man?
(a) By being a carpenter.
(b) By walking on water.
(c) By assembling twelve disciples.
(d) By leading his people out of Egypt.

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

3. Origen took up instructing the Church in Alexandria but engaged in the shocking act of ____________ and tried to hide it.
(a) Poisoning.
(b) Castrating himself.
(c) Torturing.
(d) Cutting.

4. Constantius died in 306 A.D. and was proclaimed what by the Romans?
(a) Christ.
(b) An angel.
(c) Holy Emperor.
(d) A god.

5. In the nineteenth year Diocletian was Emperor, the persecutions began and he ordered what to be done?
(a) Christian churches razed and the Scriptures destroyed.
(b) Christians to be thrown to the lions.
(c) Christians to be exiled.
(d) All books burned.

6. Many Christian soldiers in the Imperial Army had been _______________________ by the Emperor.
(a) Converted.
(b) Chosen.
(c) Wronged, persecuted and killed.
(d) Forgiven.

7. Constantius was ___________ Christians and their doctrines.
(a) Unsure about.
(b) Mean to.
(c) Very surprised by.
(d) Kind to.

8. What does the ordinance do?
(a) It protects Christians from persecution.
(b) It begins the Crusades.
(c) It protects the Bible and all churches.
(d) It begins persecution of non-Christians.

9. Cornelius was Bishop of Rome for how many years?
(a) Five.
(b) Three.
(c) Seven.
(d) Ten.

10. Who persecuted the Church in his time, which produced further "glorious" martyrdoms?
(a) Geta.
(b) Hadrian.
(c) Severus.
(d) Nerva.

11. Licinius plotted against the Bishops and did what with the most influential one?
(a) He put him to death.
(b) He destroyed his reputation.
(c) He exiled him.
(d) He tortured him.

12. Eusebius recounts the deaths of whom?
(a) The Bishops.
(b) The tyrants.
(c) The Christians.
(d) The Apostles.

13. What was happening to the people at this time?
(a) Everyone was being tortured.
(b) Everyone immigrated to other countries.
(c) Everyone begged and starved to death.
(d) Everyone hid.

14. Who aided this leader in restoring peace?
(a) Martinianus.
(b) Faustinus.
(c) Valens.
(d) Licinius.

15. God restored peace in the election of ____________.
(a) Constantine.
(b) Constantius II.
(c) Constans I.
(d) Crispus.

Short Answer Questions

1. Dionysius wrote a letter to Stephen on what?

2. Where had Maxentius fortified his troops?

3. Origen was born _______ years after Severus became Roman Emperor.

4. The Roman Empire endured dissension among ___________.

5. Dionysius affirms the canonicity of __________ against many Christian critics.

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