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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 does Mack claim about the image of Christ asking his disciples to eat and drink of him?
(a) It is impossible.
(b) It is literary.
(c) It is imaginary.
(d) It is historical.

2. What does Mack compare the Pronouncement Stories to in Chapter 2?
(a) The stories of the Romans.
(b) The stories of the Cynics.
(c) The stories of the intellectuals.
(d) The stories of the Egyptians.

3. What did early people think their society was based on?
(a) The model of the gods.
(b) The model of the universe.
(c) The model of the Jewish state.
(d) The model of the Church.

4. What does Carsten Thiede claim about the Magdalen fragments?
(a) They are not real.
(b) They are from the fourth century.
(c) They are from the mid first century.
(d) They are from the eighth century.

5. Why does Mack call the Christ cult the first Christians?
(a) They called themselves Christians.
(b) They were the first to mention the resurrection.
(c) They were the first to use the word Christ to refer to Jesus.
(d) They were the first to create a hymn to Jesus.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does evidence for the Christ cult come from?

2. Which of the layers of Q is least embellished?

3. What does the term "Christ" imply?

4. What does Mack claim was the slogan for Paul's gospel?

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

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