JQuiz Instructions

1. Before Constantine adopted Christianity, the soldiers of the Roman Empire were often...

   1.   ?  ...Gnostics.
      
   2.   ?  ...Mithraists.
      
   3.   ?  ...Manicheans.
      
   4.   ?  ...Neo-Platonists.
      
   
   

2. Plotinus was a Greco-Egyptian philosopher who is known for his...

   1.   ?  ...Manicheanism.
      
   2.   ?  ...Neo-Platonism.
      
   3.   ?  ...Gnosticism.
      
   4.   ?  ...Mithraism.
      
   
   

3. Who emphasized our freedom to go against God's wishes and was the author of an introspective autobiography called The Confessions?

   1.   ?  St. Augustine
      
   2.   ?  St. Jude
      
   3.   ?  St. Thomas Aquinas
      
   4.   ?  St. Paul
      
   
   

4. Neo-Platonism saw the universe as composed of three layers. They are...

   1.   ?  ...the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
      
   2.   ?  ...Ahura-Mazda, Ahriman, and Mithra.
      
   3.   ?  ...the One, Logos, and Psyche.
      
   4.   ?  ...The Creator, the Preserver, and the Destroyer.
      
   
   

5. Which of the early church fathers said that he believed in the trinity precisely because it was absurd?

   1.   ?  Tertullian
      
   2.   ?  Origen
      
   3.   ?  Augustine
      
   4.   ?  Paul
      
   
   

6. The gnostics believed that one of God's emanations (aions) introduced imperfection or sin. This "son" of God was called...

   1.   ?  Logos
      
   2.   ?  Sophia
      
   3.   ?  Christos
      
   4.   ?  Noos
      
   
   

7. Who modified early Christianity to be more comfortable to potential non-Jewish converts?

   1.   ?  St. Augustine
      
   2.   ?  St. Jude
      
   3.   ?  St. Thomas Aquinas
      
   4.   ?  St. Paul