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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When does Mack claim most of the works discussed in Chapter 8 were written?
(a) The eighth, ninth, and tenth centuries.
(b) The first century.
(c) The fifth century.
(d) The second, third, and fourth centuries.

2. What did Justin argue to the Romans about Christianity?
(a) That it was better than Judaism.
(b) That it hurt their government.
(c) That all Christians should be exiled.
(d) That it actually helped them.

3. What was the shift in mythmaking, according to Mack, that occurred at the turn of the second century?
(a) Christians began to disassociate from John.
(b) Christians began to leave behind the gospels.
(c) Christians began to associate gospels with disciples.
(d) Christians began to attribute more writings to Jesus himself.

4. What did Justin say about the treatment of the Jews by God, in terms of the fall of the temple and the diaspora?
(a) They deserved it because they were not Christian.
(b) They deserved it because they were wrong.
(c) They deserved it because they were bad people.
(d) They deserved it because they were corrupt.

5. Whose conversion eventually led to the creation of the New Testament?
(a) Constantine.
(b) Jerome.
(c) Eusebius.
(d) Caesar.

6. Where did the writer of the gospel of Luke write the gospel, according to Mack?
(a) Nazareth.
(b) A location near the Aegean Sea.
(c) Jerusalem.
(d) Rome.

7. What word is used to imply the significance of the miracle stories in the Gospel of John?
(a) Signs.
(b) Gifts.
(c) Revelations.
(d) Logos.

8. Who was the leader of the empire who tried to have his images placed in the temple of Jerusalem?
(a) Nero.
(b) Claudius.
(c) Arippa I.
(d) Caligula.

9. What does the Didache contain?
(a) The Commandments.
(b) The Gospel of Thomas.
(c) Sayings of Jesus.
(d) Instructions for congregations.

10. What does Mack claim the author of the Acts of the Apostles set out to show?
(a) Agreement among the apostles.
(b) Agreement between Christianity and Judaism.
(c) Disagreement among the apostles.
(d) Disagreement between Christianity and Judaism.

11. Why did the literature that the early bishops threw out survive?
(a) Christians continued to read it.
(b) It was protected by the Romans.
(c) Jews preserved it.
(d) It was protected by other bishops.

12. Who began to give an account of the new religion to Greeks, Romans, and others?
(a) Jewish intellectuals.
(b) Roman rulers.
(c) Christian intellectuals.
(d) Local Bishops.

13. What term replaced "disciples"?
(a) Acolytes.
(b) Followers.
(c) Apostles.
(d) Cultists.

14. What did the Centrists seek to prove to the challengers?
(a) That the Christian God was the same as the Jewish God.
(b) That God cared only for the Jews.
(c) That God did not exist.
(d) That the Christian God was not the same as the Jewish God.

15. What is the only feature that all Christian religions have in common?
(a) Prayers for the sick.
(b) Reliance on the Bible.
(c) Prayers to Mary.
(d) Alms for the poor.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mack believe the authors intended to convey by having Peter and James defend Paul's ideas about Jewish law?

2. Who does Mack claim most of the sermons in the Acts of the Apostles are written for?

3. What is the term for "a small group of writings believes to have been written by bishops and others" who knew the apostles?

4. Where did Justin claim the Greek philosophers received their wisdom?

5. What do the sermons in the Acts attempt to do?

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