Jesus and Gospel of Mark Full Test Bank Ch5

Chapter 5

Test Bank

Type: multiple choice question

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. editor

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. Thomas

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. an important person

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 Palestine

c. the author writes about Jewish 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. Jesus

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

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?

Feedback: The first verse of Mark informs the reader that Jesus is the Christ, the messiah, the one anointed or chosen by God. Throughout his Gospel, Mark shows that the messiah was not what the Jews had anticipated (i.e., a king, a cosmic or priestly figure). Jesus, the righteous sufferer, was the messiah who was sent by God to die for the sins of humanity. In this Gospel, no one recognizes Jesus’ true identity because he did not come in the guise that was expected. It was not until his death that his followers understood who he was. The Gospel opens with Jesus’ baptism, an event that confirms his relationship with God Because it is then that God declares that Jesus is his son. Immediately following the baptism, Jesus goes to the desert and resists temptation by Satan. When Jesus begins his public ministry, Mark underscores Jesus’ authority over demons and disease. In addition, his authority is so great that men stop what they are doing to follow him. These stories illustrate Jesus’ strength, authority, and his relationship to God.

Type: essay/short answer question

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?

Feedback: Mark emphasizes Jesus’ God-given authority by narrating his calling of disciples and his miracles, especially his power to exorcize demons. Because the messiah appeared as a common man, that is, not as the expected political or religious leader, the Jewish leaders opposed him. Mark uses the categories of authority, misunderstanding, and opposition to underscore Jesus’ true identity and to explain that he was persecuted precisely because of his messiahship. The motifs of authority, misunderstanding, and opposition illustrate the Jews’ misguided expectations of the messiah.

Type: essay/short answer question

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?

Feedback: Ehrman presents some of the Jewish expectations of the messiah in the box entitled “The Jewish Messiah.” Some Jews expected a cosmic deliverer as described in Daniel, others thought the messiah would be a political ruler who would restore self-rule and reestablish the Davidic throne, and still others believed the messiah would be a priest who would interpret the Law. Clearly Jesus of Nazareth was none of these things. Mark must, then, explain how Jesus, the suffering son of God, was the anticipated Jewish messiah.

Type: essay/short answer question

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?

Feedback: The messianic secret is a motif in Mark’s gospel in which Jesus withholds his true messianic identity from all but his closest followers, warning some not to tell of what they have seen or know about his identity. One explanation (that of Wrede) is that the historical Jesus did not, in fact, see himself as the messiah but that his followers assigned that identity to him after his death. In Mark’s story, the messianic secret functions to emphasize that Jesus was, in fact, the messiah while explaining why it seemed otherwise to those around him at the time. (See Box 5.3 on the Messianic Secret in Mark for further details.)

Type: essay/short answer question

Title: Chapter 05 Question 01

1. What is the Synoptic Problem? That is, what does “synoptic” mean and what’s the “problem?”

Type: essay/short answer question

Title: Chapter 05 Question 02

2. What is the four-source hypothesis? Be able to discuss all four sources and their relationships to each other.

Type: essay/short answer question

Title: Chapter 05 Question 03

3. How is Jesus portrayed as the messiah in Mark’s Gospel? How is this depiction similar to and different from typical first-century Jewish understandings of the messiah?

Type: essay/short answer question

Title: Chapter 05 Question 04

4. How does Mark emphasize that Jesus was misunderstood?

Type: essay/short answer question

Title: Chapter 05 Question 05

5. Who fully recognizes Jesus’ identity in this Gospel?

Type: essay/short answer question

Title: Chapter 05 Question 06

6. How does Mark stress the need for Jesus, as the Son of God, to suffer and die? Why do the characters in the Gospel not recognize this necessity?

Type: essay/short answer question

Title: Chapter 05 Question 07

7. For whom was Mark evidently writing? What clues about his audience are available in his Gospel?

Type: essay/short answer question

Title: Chapter 05 Question 08

8. Explain the following terms: Son of Man, Son of God, Christ, and messiah. How would a first-century Jew make sense of Jesus as the Son of God? A first-century Gentile?

Type: essay/short answer question

Title: Chapter 05 Question 09

9. What is meant by the term “messianic secret”? How might it function in Mark’s gospel?

Type: essay/short answer question

Title: Chapter 05 Question 10

10. What is the problem with the charge of blasphemy leveled against Jesus in the Gospel of Mark? Was Jesus guilty of the charge?