Chapter 5: Jesus, the Suffering Son of God:

The Gospel according to Mark

Test Bank

Type: essay/short answer question

Title: Chapter 05 Question 01

1. An ancient author typically began a biography with a story that revealed the most important characteristics of his subject. How does Mark’s beginning show Jesus’ identity? How do some of Mark’s opening themes play out in the rest of the Gospel?

Title: Chapter 05 Question 02

2. The textbook explains that Mark’s Jesus is authoritative, misunderstood, and opposed. Discuss how Mark uses each of these categories. Are these three elements related? How do they further Mark’s agenda?

Title: Chapter 05 Question 03

3. Discuss ways that Jews during Jesus’ time imagined the messiah. In what ways does Mark’s Jesus fit these expectations? In what ways does he not?

Title: Chapter 05 Question 04

4. What is the concept of “messianic secret” as applied to Mark? How does this theme function in Mark and why is it important?

Title: Chapter 05 Question 01

1. The author of the Gospel of Mark was probably a native _____ speaker.

a. Aramaic

b. Hebrew

c. Greek

d. Latin

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 05 Question 02

2. “Synoptic” means _____.

a. three

b. Gospel

c. to see together

d. canonical

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 05 Question 03

3. Which of the following is not a Synoptic Gospel?

a. Matthew

b. Mark

c. Luke

d. John

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 05 Question 04

4. What is the most popular resolution to the Synoptic Problem?

a. Markan priority

b. Q

c. the four-source hypothesis

d. the messianic secret

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 05 Question 05

5. Both Matthew and Luke used _____ as a literary source.

a. John

b. Peter

c. Jesus

d. Mark

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 05 Question 06

6. Which one of these is not one of the four sources in the four-source hypothesis?

a. M

b. L

c. Q

d. T

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 05 Question 07

7. The Gospel of Mark was probably written around

a. 40 CE

b. 50 CE

c. 60 CE

d. 70 CE

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 05 Question 08

8. Markan priority means _____.

a. Mark was the first Synoptic Gospel written

b. Mark is the first book in the New Testament

c. Mark is more historically accurate than the other Gospels

d. Mark is the best Gospel

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 05 Question 09

9. The Gospel of Mark begins with _____.

a. John the Baptist’s birth

b. Jesus’ birth

c. The angel Gabriel appearing to Mary

d. Jesus’ baptism by John

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 05 Question 10

10. Q refers to a hypothetical source shared by which two Gospels?

a. Mark and John

b. Mark and Matthew

c. Mark and Luke

d. Matthew and Luke

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 05 Question 11

11. The genre of the Gospel of Mark is _____.

a. Greco-Roman novel

b. Greco-Roman history

c. Greco-Roman biography

d. Greco-Roman autobiography

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 05 Question 12

12. In the Greco-Roman world, the term “Christ” referred to _____.

a. the emperor

b. a person who had been anointed with oil

c. someone who was crucified

d. God

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 05 Question 13

13. In pre-Christian Jewish circles, the term “Christ” referred to all of the following except _____.

a. a cosmic judge

b. a warrior

c. a priest

d. a persecuted person

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 05 Question 14

14. Mark is a notably Jewish Gospel because _____.

a. the author says he is Jewish

b. the author is writing in Hebrew within the Jewish homeland

c. the author writes about Jewish traditions and customs

d. the author portrays Jesus as a suffering messiah

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 05 Question 15

15. John, the forerunner of Jesus, proclaims forgiveness of sins and performs _____.

a. circumcisions

b. baptisms

c. repentance

d. miracles

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 05 Question 16

16. According to Mark, Jesus is from _____.

a. Jerusalem

b. Bethlehem

c. Capernaum

d. Nazareth

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 05 Question 17

17. When Jesus is baptized in Mark, the spirit of God descends on him in the shape of _____.

a. a dove

b. flames

c. angels

d. a cross

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 05 Question 18

18. In non-Christian Jewish circles, the term “Son of God” referred to _____.

a. God

b. a person especially close to God

c. no one

d. Apollonius

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 05 Question 19

19. All of the following figures recognize Jesus in Mark except _____.

a. the demons

b. John the Baptist

c. the gentile soldier at the cross

d. the reader of the Gospel

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 05 Question 20

20. Mark suggests that the Jewish authorities opposed Jesus because_____.

a. he broke the law

b. he was not Jewish

c. he was the messiah

d. he did not worship in the Temple

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 05 Question 21

21. Which one of Jesus’ disciples comes closest to recognizing Jesus’ identity in Mark?

a. John

b. Paul

c. Peter

d. James

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 05 Question 22

22. What does the phrase “Jesus’ passion” reference?

a. Jesus’ birth

b. Jesus’ violent actions in the Temple

c. Jesus’ love for humanity

d. Jesus’ suffering

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 05 Question 23

23. According to Mark, the messiah must _____.

a. suffer and die

b. preach and baptize

c. become the high priest

d. take control of Israel

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 05 Question 24

24. How many times does Jesus explicitly predict his death in the Gospel of Mark?

a. one

b. two

c. three

d. four

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 05 Question 25

25. In first-century apocalyptic Judaism, the term “Son of Man” referred to _____.

a. God’s son

b. a cosmic figure

c. the king

d. the high priest

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 05 Question 26

26. At his trial in Mark, the Sanhedrin charged Jesus with _____.

a. theft

b. blasphemy

c. being empowered by Satan

d. not observing Sabbath laws

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 05 Question 27

27. The Roman who convicted Jesus was _____.

a. Pontius Pilate

b. Herod the Great

c. Augustus

d. Barabbas

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 05 Question 28

28. Jesus’ last words on the cross in the Gospel of Mark are

a. “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”

b. “It is finished.”

c. “Father, forgive them, for they don’t know what they are doing.”

d. “Father, into your hands I commend my spirit.”

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 05 Question 29

29. In Mark, the temple curtain rips _____.

a. at Jesus’ birth

b. at Jesus’ trial

c. at Jesus’ death

d. at Jesus’ resurrection

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 05 Question 30

30. In Mark, when Mary, Mary, and Salome discover the empty tomb, they _____.

a. tell Peter

b. say nothing

c. praise God

d. begin Christian missions