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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 fifth century.
(b) The second, third, and fourth centuries.
(c) The eighth, ninth, and tenth centuries.
(d) The first century.

2. What does the gospel of Matthew argue Jesus' teachings were based on?
(a) The gospel of Luke.
(b) The Torah.
(c) The gospel of Q.
(d) The gospel of Mark.

3. What do the sermons in the Acts attempt to do?
(a) Validate the rights of the Jews.
(b) Validate the claims of Jesus.
(c) Validate God.
(d) Validate the authority of the disciples.

4. What did the temple at Jerusalem serve as, in terms of a symbol?
(a) It was the symbol of Jewish presence.
(b) It was the symbol of God.
(c) It was the symbol of peace.
(d) It was the symbol of Jesus.

5. Where did Justin claim the Greek philosophers received their wisdom?
(a) From the Greek gods.
(b) From the people.
(c) From Abraham.
(d) From Moses.

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

7. What did Clement argue about the "new song" of Christianity?
(a) It was based on Judaism.
(b) It was a new, vibrant way to view God.
(c) It was not new at all.
(d) It was an incorrect theory.

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

9. What does canon mean?
(a) A book of history.
(b) A date or time.
(c) Norm or standard.
(d) A religious book.

10. What does Mack call the Christian myth, in terms of its completion?
(a) An unfinished epic.
(b) An incomplete historical reference.
(c) A complete fictitious myth.
(d) A completed canon.

11. What does Mack claim about Justin's treatise to the Jews?
(a) Justin never wrote it.
(b) No one ever read it.
(c) It was made up by the Jews.
(d) No Jew ever listened to it.

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

13. What is contained in 1 Clement?
(a) Instructions for congregations.
(b) The story of Jesus.
(c) An admonishment to Corinth congregations.
(d) Sayings of Jesus.

14. What does Mack claim both Marcion and Valentinus offered?
(a) A way to avoid God.
(b) A new way to view God.
(c) An ancient way to view God.
(d) A revised way to view God.

15. What does Mack claim is Mark's greatest achievement?
(a) That he succeeded in tying Jesus with Moses.
(b) That he succeeded in publishing his work.
(c) That he succeeded in creating the origins for Christian imagination.
(d) That he succeeded in converting the Jews.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who began to give an account of the new religion to Greeks, Romans, and others?

2. Why did the book of Hebrews not succeed?

3. Whose conversion eventually led to the creation of the New Testament?

4. What does Mark's gospel do to the disciples that the story of Q did not?

5. Who was the first of this group to attack centrist Christianity?

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