View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mack suggest as a reason that Mark was overly critical of the disciples of Jerusalem?
(a) They adhered to the Jewish purity codes.
(b) They believed in the creation myth.
(c) They disobeyed the Jewish purity codes.
(d) They believed in the concept of Jesus as God.

2. Why does Mack believe the stories in the New Testament were chosen to be included?
(a) They are believed to be written by the prophets.
(b) They produce a history that seems cohesive.
(c) They are the most interesting.
(d) They are the only stories found of the time of Jesus.

3. What happened at Corinth that made Paul nervous?
(a) The congregation became a place for lies and treachery.
(b) The congregation became a place for extravagant displays of spiritual behavior.
(c) The congregation became a place for criminals.
(d) The congregation became a place for worship of other deities.

4. What does Mack claim happens when a person brings in a Biblical position to an argument of social discussion?
(a) People become bored.
(b) All religious history is brought up.
(c) All thinking and reasonable discussion stops.
(d) People become angry.

5. What did the Christ hymn imply about the domain of Jesus?
(a) It encompassed all people.
(b) It diminished in size.
(c) It encompassed only the gentiles.
(d) It encompassed only the Jews.

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

7. What does the passage in Romans 3:21-26 say about why Jesus' death was effective?
(a) Because he was justified.
(b) Because he was faithful.
(c) Because he was the son of God.
(d) Because he was a sinner.

8. What does Mack claim the kingdom of God represented?
(a) An alternative to simple death.
(b) An alternative to hell.
(c) An alternative to the current society.
(d) An alternative to purgatory.

9. Which group makes up the fifth of the Jesus Movements?
(a) The People of Q.
(b) The disciples of Thomas.
(c) The Jewish.
(d) The Pillars in Jerusalem

10. 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.

11. What does Mack claim is the reason for the many portrayals of Jesus?
(a) There is no difference in the portrayals of Jesus.
(b) Different people changed the true description for political gain.
(c) Different groups saw him differently, based on his age.
(d) Different groups developed his image to support their movement.

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

13. What is the name of the form of mythmaking Mack notes these early Jesus people were engaged in?
(a) Epic tradition.
(b) Epic authorship.
(c) Epic revision.
(d) Epic mythmaking.

14. Who were the Judaizers?
(a) Jewish Christian missionaries who agreed with Paul's freedom from the law gospel.
(b) Christian missionaries who sought to bring about the end of the Jews.
(c) Jewish missionaries who disagreed with Christianity.
(d) Jewish Christian missionaries who disagreed with Paul's freedom from the law gospel.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Rome place its power in the second and first centuries?

2. What does Mack claim is the purpose of the Miracle Stories of Mark?

3. How did the Christ cult differ form the Jesus movement?

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

5. Why were issues such as homosexuality a source of cultural conflict?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 741 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample