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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2: Teachings From the Jesus Movements.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What role did women play in associations?
(a) Women served as members, patrons, and leaders.
(b) Women played the role of caretaker to the association.
(c) Women played no role in associations.
(d) Women played a role supportive to the men.

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

3. Why does Mack claim the Bible was important by the end of the fourth century?
(a) It gave the Church credentials in the eyes of early Christians.
(b) It gave the Church credentials for a role in the history of Israel.
(c) It gave the Church credentials for a role in Constantine's empire.
(d) It gave the Church credentials for a role in Jewish history.

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

5. Whose stories are mimicked in the Miracle Stories?
(a) Greek mythology.
(b) The Egyptian scriptures.
(c) The Jewish scriptures.
(d) Roman myth.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Mack claim about the authors of the sections in the New Testament?

3. What does Mack compare the Pronouncement Stories to in Chapter 2?

4. What notion does Mack believe generated enough excitement to influence the formation of different Jesus groups?

5. What do the pillars in the Jerusalem group do that other Jesus movements do not?

(see the answer key)

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