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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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.

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

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

5. Who was the first of this group to attack centrist Christianity?
(a) Caesar.
(b) Marcion of Sinope.
(c) Valentinus.
(d) Justin.

6. What does Mark's gospel do to the disciples that the story of Q did not?
(a) Names them.
(b) Worships them.
(c) Ignores them.
(d) Kills them.

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

8. What does Mack argue is the point of Paul's letters to Timothy and Titus?
(a) For people to follow the gospel and the instructions of God.
(b) For people to follow the gospel and the instructions of Jesus.
(c) For people to follow the gospel and the instructions of the Romans.
(d) For people to follow the gospel and the instructions of the overseer.

9. 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 associate gospels with disciples.
(c) Christians began to leave behind the gospels.
(d) Christians began to attribute more writings to Jesus himself.

10. What does Mack claim the author of Acts found, in terms of an answer to what Christianity owed to Jewish history?
(a) The laws of purity.
(b) A reliance on righteousness.
(c) The Christ myth.
(d) The concept of sacrifice.

11. When does Mack argue Mark's gospel was written?
(a) Prior to the birth of Christ.
(b) Before the Roman-Jewish war.
(c) After the Roman-Jewish war.
(d) During the fourth century.

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

13. What became an interest for early third century scholars?
(a) Apostolic writings.
(b) Letters of Esther.
(c) The Torah.
(d) The Montanist.

14. Who defended the centrist Christian position from those who challenged it?
(a) Valentinus.
(b) Marcion.
(c) Justin Martyr.
(d) Philo.

15. What does Mack argue the Gospel of Matthew is a document for?
(a) The Christ cult.
(b) Judaism.
(c) Christianity.
(d) Jewish Christianity.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Clement argue about the "new song" of Christianity?

2. Who was the leader of the empire who tried to have his images placed in the temple of Jerusalem?

3. What does Mack claim are the building blocks of the Gospel of John?

4. What was Valentinus' claim about what Christ made possible, in terms of knowledge of God?

5. How many miracles occur in the Gospel of John?

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