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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9: Inventing Apostolic Traditions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the myth of Jesus' death and resurrection rooted in, according to Mack?
(a) The ideas surrounding hero worship.
(b) The concept of martyrdom.
(c) The ideas of the kingdom of God.
(d) The concept of divinity.

2. What does the passage in Romans 3:21-26 say about why Jesus' death was effective?
(a) Because he was the son of God.
(b) Because he was a sinner.
(c) Because he was justified.
(d) Because he was faithful.

3. What is Ignatius' second appeal in his letters to the churches?
(a) For the congregations to become martyrs.
(b) For the congregations to obey their bishops.
(c) For the congregations to pray for Ignatius.
(d) For the congregations to rise up against Rome.

4. What is contained in 1 Clement?
(a) An admonishment to Corinth congregations.
(b) The story of Jesus.
(c) Sayings of Jesus.
(d) Instructions for congregations.

5. What feature of the Christ cult does Mack claim Paul found irresistible?
(a) The concept of an unmixed social group.
(b) The concept of a social group with mixed ethnicity and social status.
(c) The concept of a social group of only the lower class.
(d) The concept of a group dedicated to Jesus and the Jewish codes of cleanliness.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mack claim about the image of Christ asking his disciples to eat and drink of him?

2. Where did the writer of the gospel of Luke write the gospel, according to Mack?

3. What does Mack claim the author of Acts found, in terms of an answer to what Christianity owed to Jewish history?

4. What does Mack claim the author of the Acts of the Apostles set out to show?

5. Where does evidence for the Christ cult come from?

(see the answer key)

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