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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4: Paul and His Gospels.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What concept was important to the Jewish temple-state, the Greek polis, and the Roman system of government?
(a) Law.
(b) Politics.
(c) Divinity.
(d) Virtue.

2. Why does Mack claim groups are forming outside the boundaries of religion to study the Bible?
(a) They hope to find their faith.
(b) They hope to discover fundamental truths from the past.
(c) They hope to find solutions to political issues.
(d) They hope to find salvation.

3. What did the Greek model of civilization give rise to?
(a) Satanism.
(b) Democracy.
(c) Altruism.
(d) Social stratification.

4. What was the Stoic recommendation for personal virtue?
(a) That man should avoid what was naturally right.
(b) That man could only pretend to know what was naturally right.
(c) That man could never learn what was naturally right.
(d) That man could learn what was naturally right.

5. What does each of these movements attempt to link Jesus to, according to Mack?
(a) Jerusalem.
(b) The grand traditions of Israel.
(c) The kingdom of God.
(d) The fight against Rome.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are sophists?

2. What does Mack believe the figure of Jesus became with the Pronouncement Stories?

3. What two Gods from different cultures were seen to be the same?

4. What way did ethnic or cultural groups create small social units within the larger culture they found themselves in?

5. What is the myth of Jesus' death and resurrection rooted in, according to Mack?

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