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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why are the Epistles of Peter and Jude called the Catholic epistles?
(a) They were addressed to Christians in general.
(b) They were letters of the Catholic disciples.
(c) They were specific to the Catholic church.
(d) They were addressed to the Pope.

3. How does John portray Jesus, according to Mack?
(a) As a powerful ruler.
(b) As a cosmic Lord.
(c) As the spirit of God.
(d) As a teacher.

4. What does Mack argue the Letter to the Hebrews is, in reality?
(a) A statement of principle.
(b) False letters from the Jewish leaders.
(c) A philosophical exhortation.
(d) Letters that should be attributed to Paul.

5. What is Ignatius' second appeal in his letters to the churches?
(a) For the congregations to pray for Ignatius.
(b) For the congregations to rise up against Rome.
(c) For the congregations to obey their bishops.
(d) For the congregations to become martyrs.

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

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

8. It is as important for the disciples to be apostles as it is for Jesus to be ___________________.
(a) God.
(b) The Christ.
(c) Son of God.
(d) Son of man.

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

10. During the time of the writing of Revelations, what does Mack argue the Christians were being accused of by the Romans?
(a) Disloyalty.
(b) Murder.
(c) Extortion.
(d) Theft.

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

12. What does Mack argue the author of the letters to the Hebrews is saying?
(a) Jesus is better than the Roman gods.
(b) Jesus is better than Moses.
(c) Jesus is better than the entire system of Israelite religion.
(d) Jesus is better than God.

13. Why did the book of Hebrews not succeed?
(a) It was too long.
(b) It was against the Jews.
(c) It was too intellectual.
(d) It was illogical.

14. What does Mack argue John was worried about, which resulted in his authorship of Revelations?
(a) Persecution and execution.
(b) Sickness and affliction.
(c) False teaching and sickness.
(d) False teachings and affliction.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mack claim the author of Acts found, in terms of an answer to what Christianity owed to Jewish history?

2. Who does Mack argue at the end of Chapter 8 became the beloved disciple?

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

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

5. What word is used to imply the significance of the miracle stories in the Gospel of John?

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