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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1, Early Church, Facing Persecution, Fighting Heresy.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What were the worst trials Patrick faced?
(a) Starvation and hunger.
(b) Attacks against the newly converted.
(c) Wild animal attacks.
(d) Rejection and banishment.

2. What did the first 200 years of the church face regularly?
(a) Persecution.
(b) Ridicule.
(c) Accolades.
(d) Questioning.

3. What job did Polycarp have?
(a) He was a professional beggar.
(b) He was a priest in Smyrna.
(c) He was a judge in Smyrna.
(d) He was the bishop of Smyrna.

4. What did the jailers do to Blandina?
(a) They asked her to preach to them.
(b) They tried to help free her.
(c) Cut her and crushed her bones.
(d) Made her eat maggoty food.

5. What did Arius deny?
(a) Christianity.
(b) The doctrine of the Trinity.
(c) The New Testament.
(d) The resurrection.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many times was Athanasius exiled from his church?

2. What job did Athanasius have?

3. What job did Augustine have?

4. What happened to the two prisoners with Blandina who wouldn't bow to Caesar?

5. Who did Ambrose convert to Christianity?

(see the answer key)

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