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CHRISTIAN QUIZ (III)

Part III. Modern Christianity


17. Some books of the Bible are canonical for Catholics but not for most Protestants. Which one (or more) of the following books of the Bible is/are canonical neither for Catholics nor for Protestants?
Revelation, Thomas, Ecclesiastes, Tobit, Maccabees.

18. Which one or more of the following shrine sites is/are not dedicated principally to the cult of the Virgin Mary?
Baltimore, Guadalupe, Lourdes, Medjugorje, Fatima.

19. At which event did the church decide that the Pope's word is infallible when he speaks ex cathedra?
No Answer First Council of Nicaea (AD 325)
Second Council of Nicaea (787) Council of Clermont (1095)
Ninety-Five Theses (1517) First Vatican Council (1870)
Second Vatican Council (1962-65).    

20. An exarch is
No Answer
the outermost buttress of a gothic church,
the innermost buttress of a gothic church,
a church official below a patriarch in Orthodoxy Christianity,
a choral response to the final benediction at the end of a mass,
a kind of demon that will appear in the Last Days.

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21. Associate the following religious leaders with the appropriate Protestant groups.

21a. Aimee Semple McPherson
21b. Alexander Campbell
21c. Charles Taze Russell
21d. Frances Elizabeth Caroline Willard
21e. George Fox
21f. John Calvin
21g. John Wesley
21h. Joseph Smith
21i. Mary Baker Eddy
21j. Pat Robertson

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22. Match the following books to their authors:
22a. Confessions
22b. Doctrine & Convenants and Pearl of Great Price
22c. Imitation of Christ
22d. Science & Health
22e. The Little Flowers
22f. The Way of Perfection
22g. Utopia

23. Which famous missionaries worked in which countries?
(Caution: Some worked in more than one place, and more than one of them worked in some of the places. But for purposes of this question they line up isomorphically.)
23a. Diego de Landa
23b. Sun Myung Moon
23c. St. Paul
23d. Matteo Ricci
23e. Albert Schweitzer
23f. Ida Sophia Scudder
23g. Cornelius VanDyke
23h. Francis Xavier

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24. Match the following representative quotations with their authors.
(This item based on Tim C. Leedom, ed. 1993 The Book Your Church Doesn't Want You to Read. Dubuque: Kendall/Hunt.)

24a. Elders are appointed for our sakes, and we need to submit ourselves to their authority in the local church if we are to be obedient to the Lord and His vision of the Christian life.
24b. In a state where the majority of people are Catholic, the church will require that legal existence be denied to error, and that if religious minorities exist, they shall have only a de facto existence without opportunity to spread their unbeliefs.
24c. The Church of Rome has made it an article of fact that no man can be saved out of their church, and other religious sects approach this dreadful opinion in proportion to their ignorance, and the influence of ignorant or wicked priests.
24d. The rivers of America will run with blood before they take our holy, god-inspired Bible from our schools.
24e. The Supreme Court of the United States of America is an institution damned by God Almighty.
24f. The "wall of separation between church and state" is a metaphor based on bad history, a metaphor which has proved useless as a guide to judging. It should be frankly and explicitly abandoned.

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25. Number the following Popes in chronological order:
John Calvin
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 


  


 

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