Multiple Choice Quiz


1	When the Romans destroyed the Jewish state in 70 C.E., this event was catastrophic for Jews but only aided the early church.
		A)	True
		B)	False


2	Today there is no significant difference between the order of the books of the Hebrew Bible and the books of the Christian Old Testament.
		A)	True
		B)	False


3	Christians place the Book of Malachi at the end of their Old Testament Scriptures because ___________________.
		A)	Christians believe that Malachi prophesied the appearance of John the Baptist in the New Testament.
		B)	Malachi was the last book written in the Hebrew Scriptures.
		C)	Malachi includes apocalyptic visions much like the Book of Revelation in the New Testament.
		D)	Malachi is the longest prophetic book in the Hebrew Bible.


4	Ancient Jewish rabbis believed that the period of inspired prophecy ceased shortly after the time of the Jewish scribe _______________ around 400 B.C.E.
		A)	Moses
		B)	Abraham
		C)	Elijah
		D)	Ezra


5	Christians include the Hebrew Bible as part of their Scriptures because they see their story as pointing toward Jesus Christ.
		A)	True
		B)	False


6	Books like 1 Clement and 2 Peter show that for second-century Christians ____________________ was an important theological topic that provoked a crisis of belief.
		A)	Jewish rejection of the messiahship of Jesus
		B)	the delay of the Parousia of Christ
		C)	famine
		D)	justification by faith


7	The reign of Constantine the Great had immense repercussions for early Christianity because he was the most devoted persecutor of Christianity of any of Rome's emperors.
		A)	FalseTrue
		B)	False


8	Which of the following did NOT result from the "Christianization" of the Roman Empire?
		A)	the return to churches of properties confiscated by the government
		B)	the addition of several new books to the New Testament
		C)	a new emphasis on personal eschatology over cosmic eschatology
		D)	the appointment of Christians to high public offices


9	Jews living in the second and third centuries largely abandoned apocalyptic hopes that God would visit the earth and judge the enemies of the Jews after the Jewish defeat in two disastrous wars with the Romans.
		A)	True
		B)	False


10	The word Islam means
		A)	Eastern.
		B)	submission.
		C)	Law.
		D)	head covering.


11	An important early Muslim criticism of Christianity was that ________________________.
		A)	Christians tended to be intolerant of rival religions.
		B)	Christians were at fault for the fall of the Roman Empire.
		C)	Christians were too zealous in their attempts to win converts.
		D)	the Christian doctrine of the Trinity violated the principle of monotheism.


12	The Qur'an, the sacred scriptures of Islam, incorporates a number of features of Judaism and Christianity into its vision of faith.
		A)	True
		B)	False


13	The Eastern Roman Empire survived the collapse of the Western Roman Empire by almost one thousand years.
		A)	True
		B)	False


14	The capital of the Eastern Roman Empire was ________________.
		A)	Mecca.
		B)	Jerusalem.
		C)	Constantinople.
		D)	Athens.


15	The criticism of the Roman Catholic Church by _____________________ helped spark the Protestant Reformation in Europe.
		A)	John Wesley
		B)	Martin Luther
		C)	Constantine the Great
		D)	Desiderius Erasmus


16	Martin Luther claimed that only ______________________ formed the valid basis of Christian teaching.
		A)	the Catholic Church
		B)	Scripture
		C)	custom and tradition
		D)	ordained ministers


17	Increasing numbers of people now interpret the New Testament on their own initiative due to ______________________.
		A)	the proliferation of democratic ideals
		B)	the fragmentation of the church
		C)	mass production of the Bible and the rise in literacy
		D)	political and cultural independence


18	Most Christians place _______________ at the center of their faith.
		A)	God
		B)	the virgin Mary
		C)	the Holy Trinity
		D)	Jesus


19	In the history of global religion, the figure of Jesus is practically unique in his emphasis on the fullness of life he imparts and the tremendous generosity with which he gave himself to others.
		A)	True
		B)	False


20	To some thinkers, the seemingly violent and random aspects of the evolutionary process create challenges for those who would claim that God creates through evolution.
		A)	True
		B)	False

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