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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What did Dionysius' fourth letter argue?
(a) Those who allowed heretics to take the Eucharist perverted the Eucharist.
(b) Those who forgave heretics who confessed perverted the Order of Confession.
(c) Those re-baptizing heretics had perverted baptism.
(d) Those marrying heretics had perverted marriage.

3. Dionysius wrote a letter to Stephen on what?
(a) Baptism.
(b) Confession.
(c) The Eucharist.
(d) Marriage.

4. What happens to Licinius?
(a) He became Emperor after Constantine.
(b) He was exiled.
(c) He went the way of Maxentius and Maximin.
(d) He was murdered.

5. Paul of Samosata had to be dealt with; the Bishops met at a synod, discussing his heresies, and decided to do what to him?
(a) Forgive him.
(b) Ignore him.
(c) Kill him.
(d) Excommunicate him.

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

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

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

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

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

11. 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.

12. Various letters are issued to the churches, two of which order a Synod in _____________ for "unity and concord of the churches."
(a) Athens.
(b) Florence.
(c) Rome.
(d) Tuscany.

13. Where had Maxentius fortified his troops?
(a) In Brittany.
(b) In Italy.
(c) In Germany.
(d) In Gaul.

14. Stephen thought innovation that defied tradition was ______________.
(a) Unusual.
(b) Right.
(c) Odd.
(d) Wrong.

15. Eusebius discusses the martyrs of the day and reproduces Maximin's rescript justifying what?
(a) His purpose as a ruler.
(b) His Christian beliefs.
(c) His persecution of Christians.
(d) His change in ideas.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. God restored peace in the election of ____________.

3. Famine, pestilence and war struck _________________.

4. How did Mani imitate this man?

5. Paul of Samosata held heretical opinions, such as that Christ was what?

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