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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the Stoic recommendation for personal virtue?
(a) That man could never learn what was naturally right.
(b) That man should avoid what was naturally right.
(c) That man could learn what was naturally right.
(d) That man could only pretend to know what was naturally right.

2. What concept was important to the Jewish temple-state, the Greek polis, and the Roman system of government?
(a) Law.
(b) Virtue.
(c) Politics.
(d) Divinity.

3. Whose stories are mimicked in the Miracle Stories?
(a) The Jewish scriptures.
(b) Greek mythology.
(c) The Egyptian scriptures.
(d) Roman myth.

4. Which group makes up the fifth of the Jesus Movements?
(a) The People of Q.
(b) The Pillars in Jerusalem
(c) The Jewish.
(d) The disciples of Thomas.

5. What way did ethnic or cultural groups create small social units within the larger culture they found themselves in?
(a) They met in government.
(b) They worked with one another.
(c) They created fellowships and associations.
(d) They met in educational institutions.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did the Jesus movement begin their change to the Christ cult?

2. What does Mack believe the figure of Jesus became with the Pronouncement Stories?

3. How many layers of the Gospel Q exist?

4. What do Paul's letters to the Romans represent?

5. What does Paul ask Philemon to do with Onesimus?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Mack say about the Bible in early American history?

2. Explain the findings of Carsten Thiede, Mack's response, and what this argument shows.

3. What is the second Jesus movement discussed in the book, and what is/are the primary components of the movement's teachings?

4. What were the three ideas that groups gathered around that resulted in the Jesus movements?

5. Explain why Paul is so important to views of Christianity, according to Mack.

6. Describe the two major aspects in which the Christ cult differed from the Jesus movements.

7. What are the three features of the text that indicate the Christ myth is based on the martyr myths?

8. What is the fourth Jesus movement discussed in the book, and what is/are the primary components of the movement's teachings?

9. Why does Mack believe early Christians were excited about the concept of the kingdom of God?

10. What were some of the problems exporting the Athens model of society?

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