Chapter 13: Paul and the Crises of His Churches:

The Corinthian Correspondence

Test Bank

Type: essay/short answer question

Title: Chapter 13 Question 01

1. One could argue that many, if not all, of Corinth’s problems stemmed from a fundamental misunderstanding of the nature of the resurrection. Discuss how the Corinthians misinterpreted Paul’s teachings on the resurrection and how that misunderstanding led to the various problems in that community.

Title: Chapter 13 Question 02

2. With attention to both 1 and 2 Corinthians, discuss the history of Paul’s relationship with the Corinthians.

Title: Chapter 13 Question 03

3. According to 1 Corinthians, what are some of the problems that have arisen in the Corinthian community since Paul’s departure? How might these problems be related to socio-economic differences in the community? In what ways does Paul deal with these issues?

Title: Chapter 13 Question 04

4. What are the reasons many scholars believe 2 Corinthians is actually the combination of more than one letter? Where do these scholars usually divide the letter? Do you find this persuasive? Why or why not?

Title: Chapter 13 Question 01

1. The New Testament epistles are arranged _____.

a. by date

b. by popularity

c. by length

d. by importance

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 13 Question 02

2. The church in Corinth had all of the following problems except _____.

a. members were not conducting communal meals properly

b. members were concerned about those who had died

c. members were suing one another

d. a member was sleeping with his stepmother

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 13 Question 03

3. The Corinthian community was made up of _____.

a. all poor people

b. all uneducated people

c. all wealthy people

d. a mix of poor and wealthy people

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 13 Question 04

4. Class differences in the Corinthian church led to all of the following except _____.

a. members not conducting communal meals properly

b. the wealthy asserting a more thorough knowledge than the poor

c. separate churches for the rich and poor

d. differences of understanding related to food sacrificed to idols

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 13 Question 05

5. Paul mentions all of the following things about Jesus except _____.

a. his baptism

b. his teachings on divorce

c. his teachings on paying preachers

d. the institution of the Lord’s Supper

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 13 Question 06

6. Paul says that his primary message to the Corinthians was _____.

a. love one another

b. Christ crucified

c. the virgin birth

d. the sinlessness of Jesus

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 13 Question 07

7. The Christians in Corinth appear to have believed that _____.

a. Jesus was not resurrected

b. Jesus did not die

c. they already enjoyed the full benefits of salvation

d. they would not die

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 13 Question 08

8. In 1 Corinthians, Paul says that he learned about some of the problems in Corinth from _____.

a. Chloe’s people

b. Timothy

c. Sosthenes

d. Onesimus

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 13 Question 09

9. Paul taught the Corinthians that the resurrected body _____.

a. was a disembodied soul

b. was an actual body but transformed

c. was the same as the earthly body

d. did not exist

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 13 Question 10

10. Paul demonstrates the truth of the general resurrection by appealing to _____.

a. his own resurrection

b. the testimony of the women who found the empty tomb

c. the empty tomb

d. Christ’s resurrection

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 13 Question 11

11. People in antiquity believed any of the following about the afterlife except _____.

a. there was no afterlife

b. the soul left the body

c. they would be divinized and live on Mt Olympus with the gods

d. there was a bodily resurrection

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 13 Question 12

12. Groups within the Corinthian church appealed to all of the following authorities except _____.

a. Paul

b. Apollos

c. Timothy

d. Cephas

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 13 Question 13

13. According to Paul, one problem with misunderstanding the resurrection is that _____.

a. people overlook the danger of sin

b. people will die

c. people need to be rebaptized

d. it leads people to worship idols

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 13 Question 14

14. Paul believed that married people _____.

a. should be celibate

b. should grant one another conjugal rights

c. should get divorced

d. should live in different houses

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 13 Question 15

15. 1 and 2 Corinthians are unique because _____.

a. they represent the only correspondence from a church to Paul

b. they are pseudepigraphic

c. they are written to a church Paul never visited

d. they are the only undisputed letters Paul writes to the same community

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 13 Question 16

16. Many scholars think 2 Corinthians is _____.

a. pseudepigraphic

b. anonymous

c. a combination of several letters

d. a sermon

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 13 Question 17

17. The first part of 2 Corinthians expresses _____.

a. Paul’s joy for the community

b. Paul’s disgust for the community

c. Paul’s anger at the community

d. Paul’s humiliation when he visited the community

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 13 Question 18

18. According to Ehrman’s reconstruction, 1 Corinthians is Paul’s ____ letter to Corinth.

a. first

b. second

c. third

d. fourth

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 13 Question 19

19. Paul visited the Corinthians at least _____.

a. two times

b. three times

c. four times

d. five times

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 13 Question 20

20. Presuming 2 Corinthians is a composite letter, Paul wrote at least _____ letters to Corinth.

a. two

b. three

c. four

d. five

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 13 Question 21

21. The superapostles believed that _____.

a. Christians were susceptible to sin and evil

b. the Corinthians had to be circumcised

c. Christians already enjoyed an exalted existence

d. Paul was the ultimate authority

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 13 Question 22

22. Paul admitted that the superapostles _____.

a. were true apostles

b. could perform miracles

c. enjoyed an exalted existence

d. were sent by Cephas

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 13 Question 23

23. Corinth is all of the following except _______.

a. a prosperous port city

b. a cosmopolitan city

c. in the province of Achaia

d. located in Italy

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 13 Question 24

24. Who among the following was not a Corinthian who brought Paul a letter from their community?

a. Achaicus

b. Fortunatus

c. Apollos

d. Stephanus

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 13 Question 25

25. Who did Paul meet for the first time in Corinth?

a. Priscilla

b. Timothy

c. Silvanus

d. Peter

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 13 Question 26

26. Who helped Paul write 1 Corinthians?

a. Timothy

b. Silvanus

c. Sosthenes

d. Aquila

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 13 Question 27

27. Paul learned about the problems at Corinth from _____.

a. Peter’s letter

b. Chloe’s people

c. a vision of Jesus

d. Apollos’ messenger

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 13 Question 28

28. In the “conciliatory” portion of 2 Corinthians, Paul notes he will not visit the community for a third time because _____.

a. he wants to avoid causing any more pain

b. he does not have time

c. travel is too difficult

d. he is still angry

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 13 Question 29

29. Who informed Paul of the Corinthians’ change of heart between Paul’s writing of the two parts of 2 Corinthians?

a. Apollos

b. Chloe

c. Titus

d. Peter

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 13 Question 30

30. Scholars who partition 2 Corinthians believe that chapters 1–9 contain _____.

a. an angry letter

b. a conciliatory letter

c. Paul’s first letter to Corinth

d. an interpolation