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Although the Gospel of Mark was probably the first of the New Testament Gospels to be written, it was not the first New Testament book to be written.
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| | A) | True
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| | B) | False
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According to traditions in the early church, Mark was a disciple of the apostle _______________ in Rome and based his Gospel accounts on the testimony of that apostle. |
| | A) | Paul |
| | B) | Peter |
| | C) | John |
| | D) | Thomas |
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The Gospel of Mark portrays all of Jesus' companions as oblivious to his real nature and/or as obstacles to his work.
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| | A) | True
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| | B) | False
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The first part of the Gospel of Mark is set in what geographical location?
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| | A) | Rome
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| | B) | Jerusalem
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| | C) | Antioch
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| | D) | Galilee
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In the very first verse of his Gospel, Mark identifies Jesus by two titles _______________.
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| | A) | Savior and Son of Man.
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| | B) | the Resurrection and the Life.
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| | C) | Alpha and Omega.
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| | D) | Christ and Son of God.
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In the opening scene in Mark, the reader is introduced to a divinely appointed "voice crying in the wilderness," a desert preacher named _________________.
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| | A) | John the Baptist
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| | B) | Simon Peter
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| | C) | Jeremiah
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| | D) | John Mark
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Mark portrays Jesus as a person who urgently preached about the coming of the eschaton, a term that refers to ___________________.
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| | A) | the Holy Spirit
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| | B) | the Virgin Mary
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| | C) | the Protestant Reformation
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| | D) | the end of history
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The term the Gospel of Mark uses most often to refer to Jesus is "Son of God."
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| | A) | True
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| | B) | False
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The root meaning of the term "parable" is _______________.
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| | A) | mystery
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| | B) | teaching
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| | C) | comparison
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| | D) | riddle
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Mark emphasizes Jesus' exorcisms of demons so much because ___________________.
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| | A) | demon possession was more prevalent in Galilee than in other parts of Palestine.
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| | B) | Jesus wanted to be like Moses, and Moses cast out many demons
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| | C) | John the Baptist demanded that Jesus cast out demons before he baptized Jesus
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| | D) | Mark wants to stress the apocalyptic dimensions of Jesus' ministry, and apocalyptic literature stressed God's victory over forces of supernatural evil
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Jesus probably chose twelve apostles (as opposed to some other number) because _______________________.
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| | A) | they represented the twelve tribes of Israel in the Hebrew Bible.
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| | B) | they represented the twelve minor prophets in the Hebrew Bible.
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| | C) | they represented the twelve children of Adam and Eve in the Hebrew Bible.
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| | D) | twelve is a holy number.
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In skillfully weaving individual stories together to form his Gospel, the author of Mark employs a technique called _________________ that involved the sandwiching of one story inside another story.
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| | A) | repetition
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| | B) | parable
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| | C) | form criticism
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| | D) | intercalation
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Scholars use the term "messianic secret" to describe what theological motif in Mark?
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| | A) | Jesus did not understand his mission until immediately before his death.
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| | B) | Jesus forbade his disciples and others from telling others about his miracles and his identity as Messiah.
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| | C) | Jesus' death and resurrection remain a secret until years after their occurrence.
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| | D) | Jesus imparts special, secret knowledge to his disciples that they are to pass on only to those who prove their devotion first.
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This is the first person in the Gospel of Mark to recognize that Jesus is the "Christ."
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| | A) | John the Apostle
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| | B) | James
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| | C) | John the Baptist
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| | D) | Simon Peter
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When Jesus arrives in the city of Jerusalem in Mark 11, he fulfills the prophecy of the Hebrew Bible Book of Zechariah by ________________.
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| | A) | riding into town on a beast of burden.
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| | B) | riding into town in a war chariot
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| | C) | walking through the city gate carrying a copy of the Torah.
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| | D) | climbing up onto the pinnacle of the Temple and jumping off.
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Once in Jerusalem, Jesus' words and deeds seem to revolve around the concept of the Temple.
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| | A) | True
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| | B) | False
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In Mark 13, Jesus delivers a long speech in which he predicts the coming destruction of the Jerusalem Temple.
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| | A) | True
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| | B) | False
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In the Gospel of Mark, Jesus ate his last supper with his disciples as an observance of the Jewish feast of Rosh Hashanah.
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| | A) | True
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| | B) | False
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When Pontius Pilate condemned Jesus to die by crucifixion, Pilate released a prisoner named Silas to the crowd.
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| | A) | True
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| | B) | False
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According to the Gospel of Mark, Jesus' last audible words from the cross were "Eloi, eloi, lema sabachthani?" which means _________________________.
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| | A) | "What does it profit persons to gain the whole world and to lose their life?"
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| | B) | "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?"
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| | C) | "Am I my brother's keeper?"
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| | D) | "Why do you call me 'Lord, Lord' and do not do what I tell you?"
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