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The New Testament, 4/e
Stephen Harris, California State University - Sacramento

How the New Testament Was Formed and Handed Down to Us

Multiple Choice Quiz



1

The first list of books that corresponded exactly to the twenty-seven books of the modern New Testament appeared in the ___________________.
A)first century C.E.
B)second century C.E.
C)third century C.E.
D)fourth century C.E.
2

The word "canon" is derived from the Greek term kanon, which means "godly."
A)True
B)False
3

The Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John were given these four titles by the early church because these books could be associated somehow with _______________, whom Jesus of Nazareth had called to be his close followers.
A)apostles
B)priests
C)prophets
D)rabbis
4

The Muratorian Canon is one example of a composite gospel, containing stories gleaned from all four of the canonical Gospels.
A)True
B)False
5

In writing about the composition of the New Testament canon, this early church historian divided Christian books into three different categories: acknowledged, disputed, and rejected.
A)Clement of Alexandria
B)Jerome
C)Alexander the Great
D)Eusebius
6

From the earliest days of the Christian Church, there was almost universal agreement about the contents of the Christian canon.
A)True
B)False
7

This prominent member of the Roman Church advocated that Christians abandon the Hebrew canon of Scriptures and replace it with a carefully edited version of the Gospel of Luke and Paul's letters.
A)Paul
B)Marcion
C)Jerome
D)Athanasius
8

The movement known as ________________ advocated that persons achieved salvation by attaining special, spiritual "knowledge" about heavenly truths that are denied to the average person.
A)Ebionism
B)Gnosticism
C)Sabellianism
D)Arianism
9

One of the two main purposes for the evolution of the early Christian canon was to help clarify what beliefs early church leaders considered true and acceptable.
A)True
B)False
10

Jerome's Latin translation of the Bible was known as the __________________.
A)Vulgate.
B)Diatessaron.
C)Septuagint.
D)Muratorian Canon.
11

The oldest copy of any New Testament book is a small fragment from a copy of the Gospel of John. It is usually dated around _____________, or only twenty to thirty years after the Gospel of John was written.
A)125 C.E.
B)367 C.E.
C)450 C.E.
D)550 C.E.
12

The oldest complete copies of the New Testament, including ____________________, survived in part because they were written on animal skin rather than papyrus.
A)Tatian's Diatessaron
B)Jerome's Vulgate
C)Codex Sinaiticus
D)the Septuagint
13

Early Christians pioneered the use of the _____________, a type of book construction that featured binding on one edge in the manner of the modern bound book.
A)majuscule
B)codex
C)parchment
D)scroll
14

Some of the most important codex editions of the New Testament, such as the Codex Sinaiticus, are known as ______________ or majuscules because they were written in all-capital letters.
A)lectionaries
B)uncials
C)minuscules
D)parchments
15

Most of the 5000 ancient manuscript copies of the New Testament are exactly alike.
A)True
B)False
16

The first person to translate the entire Bible from the Latin into English was ________________.
A)Desiderius Erasmus.
B)James I.
C)William Tyndale.
D)John Wycliffe.
17

The first English Bible translator to work directly from Hebrew and Greek manuscripts was __________________.
A)Desiderius Erasmus.
B)James I.
C)William Tyndale.
D)John Wycliffe.
18

The King James Bible is by far the most popular English Bible of all time.
A)True
B)False
19

The invention of the printing press was an important event that helped assure the widespread availability of the Bible in English.
A)True
B)False
20

The ____________________ is a very popular Bible translation that was produced in the 1970s and that reflects a generally conservative Protestant viewpoint.
A)King James Version (KJV)
B)New American Bible (NAB)
C)Scholars Version (SV)
D)New International Version (NIV)