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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the term for "a small group of writings believes to have been written by bishops and others" who knew the apostles?
(a) Martyrdoms.
(b) Successions.
(c) Revelations.
(d) Apostolic Fathers.

2. How did early Christians think of their world?
(a) As a kingdom of God.
(b) As a social formation.
(c) As a tomb.
(d) As a cosmos.

3. How many miracles occur in the Gospel of John?
(a) Seven.
(b) Three.
(c) Five.
(d) Ten.

4. 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.

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

6. What does Mack believe the authors intended to convey by having Peter and James defend Paul's ideas about Jewish law?
(a) That the Christian message was meant for Jews.
(b) That the Christian message was not meant for gentiles.
(c) That the Christian message was meant for gentiles.
(d) That the Christian message was not meant for Jews.

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

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

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

10. What list became the Christian Bible?
(a) The list of Eusebius.
(b) The letter of Trier.
(c) The Festal Letter of Athenasius.
(d) The list of Jerome's translations.

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

12. Who does Mack claim most of the sermons in the Acts of the Apostles are written for?
(a) Roman rulers.
(b) Christians.
(c) Jews.
(d) Pharisees.

13. 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 God cared only for the Jews.
(c) That God did not exist.
(d) That the Christian God was the same as the Jewish God.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mack call the Christian myth, in terms of its completion?

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

3. What does Mack argue is the point of Paul's letters to Timothy and Titus?

4. Why are the Epistles of Peter and Jude called the Catholic epistles?

5. In Revelations, who was found worthy enough to open the seven seals?

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