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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the common core of the Jewish scriptures?
(a) The New Testament.
(b) The Dead Sea Scrolls.
(c) The five books of Moses.
(d) Revelations.

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. What two sources does Mack claim Matthew used for his gospel?
(a) The book of Q and the gospel of Mark.
(b) The gospel of Mark and the gospel of Luke.
(c) The book of Q and the gospel of the Christ cult.
(d) The book of Q and the gospel of Luke.

9. What is different about Peter in comparison to Jude?
(a) It is completely different in content.
(b) It is more violent.
(c) It is more socially demoralizing.
(d) It clarifies the opponents more clearly.

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

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

12. Who first discussed the twelve disciples?
(a) Paul.
(b) John.
(c) Luke.
(d) Matthew.

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

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

15. In Revelations, who was found worthy enough to open the seven seals?
(a) Jesus.
(b) Man.
(c) Moses.
(d) The lamb.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is contained in 1 Clement?

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

4. What does Mack say about the letter of Jude?

5. Who defended the centrist Christian position from those who challenged it?

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