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1
The distinctive understanding of love that Christians held transformed ____ into a virtue of love.
Competitiveness
Pride
Civic Duty
Humility
2
What term was adopted at the Council of Nicaea to describe how Christ and God the Father were related to one another?
Homoousion
Homoiousion
Sacramentum
Essentialism
3
According to Augustine, the Church is equated with the City of God.
True
False
4
What philosophical concept did Justin Martyr use to make his defense of Christianity?
Logos
Apotheosis
Metempsychosis
Sophistry
5
Which of the following is considered the greatest thinker of pre-Constantinian Christianity?
Justin Martyr
Ambrose of Milan
Origen
Cyril of Jerusalem
6
What event in 70 CE effectively marked the end of Second Temple Judaism and the beginning of Rabbinic Judaism?
The Siege of Constantinople
The Destruction of the Jerusalem Temple
The Great Fire of Rome
The Babylonian Exile
7
What famous building exemplified the union of the church and the empire in the East?
Hagia Trinitas
St. Peter’s Basilica
The Holy Sepulchre
Hagia Sophia
8
Which Frankish king became the first Holy Roman Emperor after being crowned by the pope on Christmas Day?
Charlemagne
Otto the Great
Pepin the Short
Romulus Augustulus
9
Jesus & his followers lived @ the intersection of 3 socio-religious worlds. Which of the following is
1
of those worlds?
Carolingian Rule
Assyrianism
Hellenism
Scholasticism
10
Who led the capture and looting and looting of Rome in 410 CE?
Alaric
Leman Russ
Theodoric
Odoacer
11
What form of political rule did Otto the Great establish that lasted for roughly 100 years in the Holy Roman Empire?
Secular rule
Oligarchic rule
Democratic rule
Theocratic rule
12
Which of the following is one of the reasons Charles Martel’s victory at the Battle of Tours was significant?
Established Charles as the real power of the Franks.
It halted the spread of Islam into Europe.
Both A and C.
It established the Merovingian dynasty.
13
What name is often used to describe Greek Christianity in the East?
Eastern Orthodoxy
Oriental Orthodoxy
Celtic Orthodoxy
Roman Catholicism
14
What is the common language left behind by Alexander the Great, that allowed for the spread of early Christianity?
Koine Greek
Classical Sanskrit
Ecclesiastical Latin
Syro-Phoenician
15
Which emperor instituted the worst empire-wide persecution of Christians just before Constantine came to power?
Constantius
Nero
Julius Caesar
Diocletian
16
What is the name historians give to the power struggle between the pope & the Holy Roman Emperor?
All of the above
The Investiture Controversy
The Byzantine Controversy
The Babylonian Captivity of the Church
17
Which of the following became a problem in the Church after Christianity became the religion of the empire?
The end of persecution
Better relations with Persian Christians
Insincere converts
Larger church buildings
18
Charles Martel officially established the Carolingian Dynasty.
False
True
19
Tertullian strongly supported the use of Greek philosophical concepts to defend Christianity.
True
False
20
Which of the following figures greatly expanded the role and power of the papacy and championed missions?
Gregory the Great
Gregory of Nazianzus
Boniface VIII
Basil the Great
21
During the uncertainty of the 5th & 6th centuries what principle did Benedict order his new form of monasticism around?
Novelty
Chaos
Isolation
Stability
22
According to the textbook, which of the following was one of the limitations placed upon Christians under Islamic rule?
Christians were forbidden from civil service.
Sunday worship was banned.
A special poll tax.
Bibles were confiscated.
23
Perpetua refused to renounce her faith before her martyrdom. Who begged her to renounce her faith to save herself?
Her Father
Polycarp
Felicitas
Her Brother
24
In the debates over Christ’s human & divine natures which philosophical tradition influenced the Alexandrians’ theology
?
Stoic philosophy
Aristotelian philosophy
Cynic philosophy
Platonic philosophy
25
There were three major sects in Second Temple Judaism. Which of the three shared many beliefs with the Jesus movement?
The Sadducees
The Essenes
The Pharisees
All three were equally similar to the early Jesus movement.
26
Which of the following beliefs held that there was ultimately no real distinction between Christ and God the Father?
Adoptionism
Chalcedonianism
Nestorianism
Sabellianism/Modalism
27
Who said, “There was a time when the Son was not”?
Arius
Athanasius
Alexander
Nestorius
28
Which ecumenical council finally put an end to the Arian Controversy in the empire?
The First Council of Constantinople
Council of Nicaea
The Council of Chalcedon
The Fourth Lateran Council
29
When did Patrick convert to Christianity?
While serving as a soldier in the Roman army.
During mass at Canterbury cathedral.
While enslaved to an Irish chieftain.
While attending a pagan rune ritual.
30
What battle did Constantine win to become emperor in the western part of the empire?
The Battle of Monte Cassino
The Battle of the Milvian Bridge
The Battle of the Five Armies
The Battle of Baden Field
31
What name did the people of Alexandria give to bishop Proterius and his supporters?
Melchites
Monothelites
Nestorians
Protoss
32
According to tradition, what important artifact from ancient Israel’s history supposedly found its way to Ethiopia?
The Sword of David
The Holy of Holies
The Robe of the High Priest
The Ark of the Covenant
33
Alexandrian theologians in Egypt held to a belief in a single unified nature of Christ. What is the name of that belief?
Melchitism
Monophysitism
Duophysiticism
Arianism
34
Which reform did Pope Gregory VII institute to prevent clergy from being entangled in local political & social matters?
Clerical marriage
Monastic seclusion
Imperial investiture
Clerical celibacy
35
According to Augustine, what holds the Church together?
The Holy Spirit
All of the above.
The moral purity of priests
The magical nature of the Eucharist
36
Which of the following figures was instrumental in increasing the power of the office of bishop?
Cyril of Alexandria
Ignatius of Antioch
Origen of Alexandria
Augustine of Hippo
37
What is the name for the distinctive Christian belief that God has taken on flesh?
Sanctification
Apotheosis
Incarnation
Resurrection
38
Who believed that the Old Testament God was evil and thus rejected the Hebrew Scriptures and all elements of Judaism?
Arius of Alexandria
Irenaeus of Lyons
Marcion of Sinope
Simon Magus
39
Which of the following was the first church council in history?
The Council of Chalcedon
The Council of Constance
The Lateran Council
The Jerusalem Council
40
Who was the leading biblical interpreter of the Antiochenes during the debates over Christ’s human & divine natures?
Athanasius of Alexandria
Augustine of Hippo
Theodore of Mopsuestia
Basil of Caesarea
41
Which of the following became the first major controversy in Christian history?
The Iconoclast Controversy
The Arian Heresy
The Question of Gentile Inclusion
The Augustinian-Pelagian Debate
42
Why did the bishop of Rome claim special authority and primacy over the bishops of other churches?
Because the bishop of Rome was Peter’s successor.
Because Rome was the capital of the empire.
All of the above.
Because Latin was better than Greek.
43
Monks increasingly took on the following role in the East:
Bishops
Soldiers
Lawyers
Civic leaders
44
Zeno issued the
Henoticon
to try and reconcile the Monophysites and Chalcedonians. What topic did it remain silent on?
The two wills of Christ
The divinity of Christ
The two natures of Christ
The teachings of Nestorius
45
What was the name of the hardline faction that arose in the Latin West in response to the
traditores
?
Ebionites
Nestorians
Donatists
Catholics
46
According to Augustine, humans are born completely pure, without any propensity toward sin.
True
False
47
What insult did Romans throw at Christians for not worshipping the pagan gods?
Incest
Atheism
Cannibalism
Tritheism
48
Whenever we read history, we are simultaneously doing which of the following
?:
Agreeing with history
Interpreting history
Arguing against history
Recording history
49
Which fifth-century pope went out to meet Attila at the gates of Rome, thereby preventing the Huns from sacking Rome?
Basil the Great
Peter the Great
Leo the Great
Gregory the Great
50
Which major imperial figure was somewhat sympathetic to the Monophysite Christians of Syria?
Justinian
Cyril
Theodora
Zeno
