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

2. What does Mack claim about Paul's letters to Colossians and Ephesians?
(a) They are not authentic.
(b) They are attempts to sabotage his name.
(c) They did not truly exist.
(d) They are filled with lies.

3. Why were the revisions of the scriptures not convincing before 70 C.E.?
(a) They could not match the logic that the epic was for Jesus.
(b) They could not match the logic that the epic was for the Greek state.
(c) They could not match the logic that the epic was for the second-temple Jerusalem.
(d) They could not match the logic that the epic was for the Roman empire.

4. How did Luke portray Jesus?
(a) A teacher of the Torah.
(b) The manifestation of obedience to the spirit.
(c) A wandering prophet.
(d) A powerful deity.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who is the star from Chapter 13 to the end of the Acts of the Apostles?

3. What is Ignatius' second appeal in his letters to the churches?

4. What does Mack argue the author of the letters to the Hebrews is saying?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What are the standard writing conventions used in the Acts of the Apostles?

2. Explain the conversion of Constantine, and why it was pivotal in the creation of the Bible.

3. What are the major points of the sermons contained in the Acts, according to Mack?

4. What was Valentinus' story of the tragedy of the birth of the world?

5. What are the three concerns underlying the treatise to the Hebrews?

6. What two values are integrated in the Letters of Ignatius, and what is the result?

7. What was Marcion of Sinope's logic, in terms of his views of two Gods, and what to do about the Jewish contamination in the gospels?

8. What are the four types of miracle interpretation occurring in the Gospel of John?

9. Describe Matthew's depiction of Jesus.

10. What were the two key arguments that the centrists tried to use against the non-centrist positions of Valentinus and Marcion?

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