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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1: Clashing Cultures.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mack note causes some of the differences between the stories of the New Testament?
(a) They were written by one person, posing as different people.
(b) They were written by different people of the same group.
(c) They were written by the same person over the course of time.
(d) They were written by different people from different groups.

2. What two words came to represent the debate between power and the divine law of nature?
(a) King and tyrant.
(b) Priests and rulers.
(c) Nature and tyrants.
(d) Power and nature.

3. What does Mack claim is the link that gives the Christian Bible logic and force?
(a) The link between the Jewish scriptures of the Old Testament, and the Catholic Church.
(b) The link between the Jewish scriptures of the Old Testament, and the New Testament.
(c) The link between the Jewish temple, and the New Testament.
(d) The link between the Protestant Bible and the Apocrypha.

4. What was contained in the "Jefferson Bible"?
(a) Only the creation myths.
(b) Only the sections prior to the New Testament.
(c) Only the teachings of Jesus.
(d) Only the Books of the Prophets.

5. What does the term Judeo-Christian mean?
(a) Local tradition.
(b) Common tradition.
(c) Temple tradition.
(d) Biblical tradition.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Rome place its power in the second and first centuries?

2. What does Mack claim happens when a person brings in a Biblical position to an argument of social discussion?

3. What is an epic according to Mack?

4. What two systems helped define the temple-state?

5. What concept was important to the Jewish temple-state, the Greek polis, and the Roman system of government?

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