Last semester I posted here on the blog the pop quiz I gave on the first day of the semester to my class on Jesus in Scholarship and Film. As you may have noticed in my post yesterday, I also give a quiz to begin my New Testament class, which I started teaching yesterday. If you were on the blog five months ago, and have a very good memory, the quiz will look very familiar. About half the questions are the same.
I give a quiz on the first day – before I’ve taught the students anything – both in order to break the ice while having some fun together and in order to teach a few things, as I give the answers after they have taken a stab at them. I’ll say a few things about what I try to accomplish with that in my next post.
I told the students yesterday that if anyone got at least nine of the eleven answers correct, I would buy them dinner at the Armadillo Grill. It turns out that out of a class of 240, I will have to buy 7 dinners this semester. (To get an answer correct, if there were multiple parts, every part had to be correct: no partial credit!) (and no partial dinners!) I think 7 is a pretty good total – although I should point out that I asked the whole class how many of them had studied the Bible in any context: school, church, Sunday school, Bible study, whatever. Virtually everyone had. Well, whatever they were studying, it wasn’t the basic facts about the NT….
In any event, I won’t be buying *you* dinner if you get nine right! Still, for the heckuvit, here’s the NT quiz:
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Quiz on the NT
- How many books are in the NT?
- In what language were they written?
- In what century were they written?
- Name the Gospels of the NT.
- According to the Gospels, who baptized Jesus? Who carried his cross? Who discovered his empty tomb?
- Which author of the NT wrote the most books?
- Who wrote the NT book of 1 Peter? 2 Timothy? 1 Andrew?
- What was the Apostle Paul’s last name?
- In about what year did Jesus die? Alexander the Great?
- Rank the following persons in order, according to the date of their deaths: the Apostle Paul, the Emperor Constantine, Jesus, Moses, the prophet Isaiah, Alexander the Great, Caesar Augustus.
- Which of the following were Jews? John the Baptist, Alexander the Great, Jesus, Simon Peter, Tacitus, the Apostle Paul.