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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Mack claim the Bible is constantly consulted?
(a) It is the only book of God.
(b) It is important to our politicians.
(c) People require it for their faith.
(d) It is highly important to religious institutions.

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

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

4. Who were the super apostles at Corinth?
(a) Disciples of Paul.
(b) Hebrews and Israelites.
(c) Jews and Protestants.
(d) The Pillars of Jerusalem.

5. What does Paul ask Philemon to do with Onesimus?
(a) Punish him as God would punish him.
(b) Kill him.
(c) Receive him without punishment.
(d) Send him into exile.

6. 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.

7. Why does Mack claim that the Jesus cult succeeded?
(a) People liked the idea of God.
(b) People liked the idea of freedom.
(c) People liked the idea of a kingdom.
(d) People liked the idea of a martyr.

8. What do Paul's letters to the Romans represent?
(a) A complete statement of his religious ideas.
(b) An angry accusation of lewdness and persecution.
(c) A defense against other missionaries.
(d) A plea for the Romans to accept Christianity.

9. Why were issues such as homosexuality a source of cultural conflict?
(a) It was accepted by all cultures.
(b) It was accepted by one culture, and rejected by another.
(c) It was unheard of in any culture.
(d) It was not accepted by any culture.

10. What two realms did the Corinthians combine?
(a) Jewish belief and Greek myth.
(b) The Christ myth and Jewish belief.
(c) Greek philosophy and the Christ myth.
(d) Greek philosophy and Jewish belief.

11. When would eternal life be obtained, according the Mack's depiction of Paul's letters to the Thessalonians?
(a) In death.
(b) At the end of time.
(c) In accepting Christ.
(d) Never.

12. What does Paul assure the Thessalonians in terms of "those who had died"?
(a) That those who died with God will live with God.
(b) That those who died before Christ could still be saved.
(c) That those who died with God will never die.
(d) That those who died in sin would not be with God after death.

13. Where was Jesus from?
(a) Galilee.
(b) Greece.
(c) Israel.
(d) Italy.

14. What is the myth of Jesus' death and resurrection rooted in, according to Mack?
(a) The concept of martyrdom.
(b) The ideas of the kingdom of God.
(c) The concept of divinity.
(d) The ideas surrounding hero worship.

15. What do the pillars in the Jerusalem group do that other Jesus movements do not?
(a) Believe in the creation myth.
(b) Believe in the concept of Jesus as a god.
(c) Disobey Jewish purity codes.
(d) Adhere to the Jewish purity codes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mack suggest as a reason that Mark was overly critical of the disciples of Jerusalem?

2. What did Paul's Jewish sensibility place high value on?

3. Why does Mack claim groups are forming outside the boundaries of religion to study the Bible?

4. What does Mack claim the Jews had done since the time of David and Solomon?

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

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