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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Who did Paul argue was the seed of Abraham?
(a) Jesus.
(b) Matthew.
(c) God.
(d) Paul himself.
2. What three figures did Paul bring together to combat the concept that the divine spirit was all that mattered?
(a) The heart, mind, and soul.
(b) The mind, body, and soul.
(c) The individual, Christ, and the congregation.
(d) The individual, Christ, and God.
3. Why did Paul tone down his views of the freedom of Christians?
(a) He wanted to tie down Christians to make them more holy.
(b) He was reverting back to his Jewish roots.
(c) He did not want a repeat of the out of control behaviors at Corinth.
(d) He was told by God to tame the behaviors of man.
4. What way did ethnic or cultural groups create small social units within the larger culture they found themselves in?
(a) They created fellowships and associations.
(b) They met in government.
(c) They worked with one another.
(d) They met in educational institutions.
5. What was Paul's first argument against the idea that Christians should practice Jewish law?
(a) That he has already won his position with the pillars of Jerusalem.
(b) That the Christians were immune to the law of Jewish tradition.
(c) That the Jewish were unreasonable in their laws.
(d) That the Christians were Jesus' children.
6. Why does Mack believe the stories in the New Testament were chosen to be included?
(a) They produce a history that seems cohesive.
(b) They are believed to be written by the prophets.
(c) They are the most interesting.
(d) They are the only stories found of the time of Jesus.
7. What feature of the Jerusalem group allows readers to build a profile?
(a) The leaders' religions are known.
(b) The leaders' political ambitions are known.
(c) The leaders' home states are known.
(d) The leaders' names are known.
8. What did the Greek model of civilization give rise to?
(a) Social stratification.
(b) Altruism.
(c) Democracy.
(d) Satanism.
9. What does Mack claim about the image of Christ asking his disciples to eat and drink of him?
(a) It is imaginary.
(b) It is literary.
(c) It is impossible.
(d) It is historical.
10. What does Mack claim the kingdom of God represented?
(a) An alternative to purgatory.
(b) An alternative to the current society.
(c) An alternative to simple death.
(d) An alternative to hell.
11. What is a Christ hymn?
(a) A song specifically geared toward Jesus.
(b) A genre of praise poetry.
(c) A song specifically geared toward God.
(d) A genre of poetry to the angels.
12. What did Paul's argument do to Jews and Christians?
(a) Put the two together in brotherhood.
(b) Set Jews in opposition to Christians.
(c) Made the two into one religion.
(d) Nothing.
13. How many layers of the Gospel Q exist?
(a) Five.
(b) Two.
(c) Twenty.
(d) Three.
14. What role did women play in associations?
(a) Women played the role of caretaker to the association.
(b) Women played a role supportive to the men.
(c) Women played no role in associations.
(d) Women served as members, patrons, and leaders.
15. Who were the Judaizers?
(a) Jewish Christian missionaries who disagreed with Paul's freedom from the law gospel.
(b) Jewish Christian missionaries who agreed with Paul's freedom from the law gospel.
(c) Jewish missionaries who disagreed with Christianity.
(d) Christian missionaries who sought to bring about the end of the Jews.
Short Answer Questions
1. Whose stories are mimicked in the Miracle Stories?
2. Which of the layers of Q is least embellished?
3. What are the two activities Mack gives credit to in terms of the creation of Christian beliefs?
4. In the temple-state model of civilization, what system does the priest represent?
5. What does Mack compare the Pronouncement Stories to in Chapter 2?
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