Chapter 7 Quiz

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. The Pantheon in Rome was dedicated to _______.

Jupiter correct incorrect

Mars and Minerva correct incorrect

Venus correct incorrect

All the gods correct incorrect

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. Which of the following gods had cults that were considered mystery religions? Select all that apply.

Cybele correct incorrect

Minerva correct incorrect

Isis correct incorrect

Mithras correct incorrect

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. In addition to religion, another field of study that began to focus on human life and suffering was _______.

Your response

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. About how many people worldwide identify as Christian?

200,000 correct incorrect

100 million correct incorrect

1 billion correct incorrect

2 billion correct incorrect

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. According to scholars, the texts of the New Testament were written _______.

Right after the death of Jesus correct incorrect

Over the course of a century correct incorrect

Not until the fourth century correct incorrect

Not until the Protestant Reformation in the 16th century correct incorrect

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. The earliest written texts of Christianity are the _______.

Gospels correct incorrect

Letters of Paul correct incorrect

Revelation correct incorrect

Acts of the Apostles correct incorrect

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. The Jewish political party made up of the Temple priests and their political allies were the _______.

Your response

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. The Jewish political party which consisted of the rabbis and their followers were the _______.

Your response

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. The Jews hated the dynasty of Herod because they were thought to be _______.

Secretly not Jewish correct incorrect

Pagans correct incorrect

Too Hellenized correct incorrect

Roman puppets correct incorrect

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. The word 'baptize' comes from the Greek meaning _______.

To plunge correct incorrect

To purify correct incorrect

To forgive correct incorrect

To reconcile correct incorrect

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. How many men were in Jesus core group of personal disciples?

Your response

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. Which of the four Gospel writers aimed at a specifically Jewish audience?

Matthew correct incorrect

Mark correct incorrect

Luke correct incorrect

John correct incorrect

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. According to historical sources, Pontius Pilate was _______.

Extremely philosophical correct incorrect

Cruel, rigid and autocratic correct incorrect

A devout pagan correct incorrect

A secret Jewish sympathizer correct incorrect

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. The apostle Paul was unusual among the apostles because he _______.

Was not Jewish correct incorrect

Was not trained as a rabbi correct incorrect

Was by the side of Jesus for his entire ministry correct incorrect

Dedicated himself to preaching to non-Jews correct incorrect

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. The word 'bishop' originally meant _______.

Head correct incorrect

Pastor correct incorrect

Overseer correct incorrect

Owner correct incorrect

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. Early Christian communities frequently held different beliefs because _______.

They were rivals correct incorrect

They had different revelations correct incorrect

Their teachers had believed different things correct incorrect

Christianity was a unified belief system from its earliest days correct incorrect

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. The Romans persecuted Christians because _______. (Select all that apply)

Christians devalued the affairs of the world correct incorrect

They rarely served in the army correct incorrect

They were suspected of cannibalism correct incorrect

They refused to sacrifice to the emperor correct incorrect

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. Christians who were not ethnically Jewish exceeded the numbers of Christians who were by the year _______.

35 correct incorrect

80 correct incorrect

150 correct incorrect

300 correct incorrect

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. The first persecutions of Christians happened under the reign of the emperor _______.

Your response

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. The one of the Five Good Emperors who was also known as a Stoic philosopher was _______.

Trajan correct incorrect

Hadrian correct incorrect

Nerva correct incorrect

Marcus Aurelius correct incorrect

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. Marcus Aurelius used the Greek word logos to mean _______.

Writing correct incorrect

Philosophy correct incorrect

Theology correct incorrect

Order and purpose correct incorrect

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. The famous author of the Parallel Lives was _______.

Plutarch correct incorrect

Marcus Aurelius correct incorrect

Plato correct incorrect

Epicurus correct incorrect

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Looking at Map 7.2 you could say what about early Christianity?

That it was a majority of the Roman population correct incorrect

That it spread widely outside the Roman Empire correct incorrect

That it spread widely throughout the Roman Empire correct incorrect

That it was a popular religion correct incorrect

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Looking at Photo 7.1, which depicts Mithras slaying a sacred bull, who would you say Mithras would be popular with?

Women correct incorrect

Soldiers correct incorrect

Children correct incorrect

Christians correct incorrect

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Looking at this photo, what is it trying to tell you about Marcus Aurelius?

That he was a great philosopher correct incorrect

That he was a great warrior correct incorrect

That he was a good leader correct incorrect

That he thought he was Hercules correct incorrect