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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. Where did the writer of the gospel of Luke write the gospel, according to Mack?
(a) Jerusalem.
(b) Nazareth.
(c) Rome.
(d) A location near the Aegean Sea.

2. What does Mark's gospel do to the disciples that the story of Q did not?
(a) Kills them.
(b) Ignores them.
(c) Names them.
(d) Worships them.

3. What collection of early Christian texts does the Didache now belong to?
(a) Acts of the Apostles.
(b) The Dead Sea Scrolls.
(c) Revelations.
(d) The Apostolic Fathers.

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

5. What is the term for "a small group of writings believes to have been written by bishops and others" who knew the apostles?
(a) Successions.
(b) Revelations.
(c) Martyrdoms.
(d) Apostolic Fathers.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mack say the Christ cult laid the foundation for?

2. What two sources does Mack claim Matthew used for his gospel?

3. What does Mack claim about the Book of Isaiah?

4. What does the term "Christ" imply?

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

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