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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Eusebius open this chapter?
(a) Worrying about the return of peace to the church.
(b) Thanking God for the return of peace to the church.
(c) Summarizing his book.
(d) Wondering about the return of peace to the church.

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

3. What did he say must be done with Christians?
(a) They must be converted.
(b) They must be exiled.
(c) They must be tortured.
(d) They must be imprisoned or killed.

4. How old was Origen when his father was martyred?
(a) Thirteen.
(b) Eleven.
(c) Fifteen.
(d) Seventeen.

5. What happened to Marcella and her mother?
(a) They were imprisoned for life.
(b) They were poisoned.
(c) They were exiled.
(d) They were burned alive.

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

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

8. In a third letter to Philemon, Dionysius wrote about what?
(a) The end of the heresy.
(b) The destruction of the church by heretics.
(c) The details of the heresy.
(d) The origins of the heresy.

9. Domnus then replaced Paul. How did Paul respond?
(a) He begged to stay.
(b) He left quickly.
(c) He asked for forgiveness.
(d) He refused to give the church over.

10. Why did Origen leave for Greece?
(a) To settle important questions related to the church.
(b) To visit several Apostles.
(c) To visit family.
(d) To evangelize.

11. Maximin could not tolerate an end to persecution for longer than ___________ months.
(a) Twenty-seven.
(b) Fifteen.
(c) Eight.
(d) Six.

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

13. Dionysius then wrote another letter, recording whose view?
(a) Cornelius'.
(b) His own.
(c) Cyprian's.
(d) Stephen's.

14. Eusebius reproduces the imperial ordinances from whom?
(a) Constantius and Crispus.
(b) Constantine and Licinius.
(c) Constantius and Licinius.
(d) Crispus and Constantine.

15. As he grew up, Origen was dedicated to good Christian teaching and taught ___________, a Pagan, among others.
(a) Aristotle.
(b) Socrates.
(c) Plutarch.
(d) Carneades.

Short Answer Questions

1. At this time, the empire has two junior emperors, __________________, both of which often had rights of succession.

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

3. Eusebius will draw primarily from ____________, the Bishop of Alexandria, for his history of the period between Gallus and Gallienus.

4. The Emperor commands a second synod for what reason?

5. What happened to the churches?

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