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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 way did ethnic or cultural groups create small social units within the larger culture they found themselves in?
(a) They met in government.
(b) They created fellowships and associations.
(c) They worked with one another.
(d) They met in educational institutions.

2. What two systems helped define the temple-state?
(a) Power and purity.
(b) Purity and salvation.
(c) Power and cruelty.
(d) Salvation and logic.

3. What does Mack claim the Jews had done since the time of David and Solomon?
(a) Lied about their origins to gain social standing.
(b) Recounted their original epic history to retain truth.
(c) Participated in social change.
(d) Revised their epic history.

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

5. What was the Greek concept of civilization?
(a) The Church.
(b) The temple-state.
(c) The republic.
(d) The city-state.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Mack claim Columbus studied the Bible?

2. Where was Jesus from?

3. What did the Greek model of civilization give rise to?

4. What does Mack note causes some of the differences between the stories of the New Testament?

5. What is an epic according to Mack?

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