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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was contained in the "Jefferson Bible"?
(a) Only the sections prior to the New Testament.
(b) Only the creation myths.
(c) Only the Books of the Prophets.
(d) Only the teachings of Jesus.

2. 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.

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

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

5. What was Paul's first argument against the idea that Christians should practice Jewish law?
(a) That the Jewish were unreasonable in their laws.
(b) That he has already won his position with the pillars of Jerusalem.
(c) That the Christians were Jesus' children.
(d) That the Christians were immune to the law of Jewish tradition.

6. 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 met in educational institutions.
(d) They worked with one another.

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

8. Whose stories are mimicked in the Miracle Stories?
(a) The Jewish scriptures.
(b) The Egyptian scriptures.
(c) Greek mythology.
(d) Roman myth.

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

10. What does the term "Christ" imply?
(a) That Jesus was the son of God.
(b) That Jesus was God.
(c) That Jesus was mortal.
(d) That Jesus was approved by God.

11. Which of the layers of Q is least embellished?
(a) The first.
(b) The second.
(c) The third.
(d) The fifth.

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

13. What did Paul's argument do to Jews and Christians?
(a) Set Jews in opposition to Christians.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Made the two into one religion.
(d) Put the two together in brotherhood.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mack claim about the various groups that formed in the schools of Jesus?

2. What two realms did the Corinthians combine?

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

4. Why does Mack believe the stories in the New Testament were chosen to be included?

5. Why does Mack claim that the Jesus cult succeeded?

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