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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mack claim is the purpose of the Miracle Stories of Mark?
(a) To create the impression of a divine power.
(b) To describe the wonders of faith.
(c) To explain historic facts of Jesus.
(d) To explain the supernatural powers of the disciples.

2. What two Gods from different cultures were seen to be the same?
(a) Athena and Zeus.
(b) Philo and Alexandria.
(c) Hermes and Thoth.
(d) Osiris and Isis.

3. What does Mack claim about the authors of the sections in the New Testament?
(a) They are not the people each section is attributed to.
(b) They were descendants of Jesus.
(c) They were uneducated militants, rebelling against the Church.
(d) They are the people each section is attributed to.

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

5. In the temple-state model of civilization, what system does the priest represent?
(a) Purity.
(b) Logic.
(c) Power.
(d) Salvation.

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

7. What feature of the Jerusalem group allows readers to build a profile?
(a) The leaders' religions are known.
(b) The leaders' names are known.
(c) The leaders' home states are known.
(d) The leaders' political ambitions are known.

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

9. Why did Paul tone down his views of the freedom of Christians?
(a) He was told by God to tame the behaviors of man.
(b) He was reverting back to his Jewish roots.
(c) He wanted to tie down Christians to make them more holy.
(d) He did not want a repeat of the out of control behaviors at Corinth.

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

11. What does Mack claim about the various groups that formed in the schools of Jesus?
(a) They were experimental.
(b) They were disciples of Jesus.
(c) They were sent by God.
(d) They were dangerous.

12. What is a Christ hymn?
(a) A song specifically geared toward God.
(b) A genre of praise poetry.
(c) A genre of poetry to the angels.
(d) A song specifically geared toward Jesus.

13. What does Mack believe the figure of Jesus became with the Pronouncement Stories?
(a) A martyr.
(b) A mystic.
(c) A teacher.
(d) Interpreter of the law.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What three figures did Paul bring together to combat the concept that the divine spirit was all that mattered?

3. What did early people think their society was based on?

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

5. What does each of these movements attempt to link Jesus to, according to Mack?

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