Christian literature - Quiz
  • 1. What kind of plays were frequently performed in European churches during the medieval period?
A) Tragedy plays
B) Comedy plays
C) Mystery plays
D) Puppet shows
  • 2. What type of play developed in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries to exhort the audience to a virtuous life?
A) Satirical play
B) Mystery play
C) Romantic play
D) Morality play
  • 3. Which university is associated with the editors of the journal Christianity & Literature?
A) Oxford University
B) Azusa Pacific University
C) Yale University
D) Cambridge University
  • 4. Who wrote The Confessions of St. Augustine?
A) Thomas Aquinas
B) Dante Alighieri
C) St. Jerome
D) Augustine of Hippo
  • 5. Which work is considered the first epic of Christendom?
A) Christiad
B) Paradise Lost
C) Psychomachia
D) The Easter Song
  • 6. Who wrote The Divine Comedy?
A) Dante Alighieri
B) Thomas Malory
C) John Milton
D) Petrarch
  • 7. In which centuries did the church generally attempt to suppress theatre?
A) Twentieth and twenty-first
B) Eighteenth and nineteenth
C) Fourteenth and fifteenth
D) Sixteenth and seventeenth
  • 8. Who wrote The Pilgrim's Progress?
A) John Milton
B) John Bunyan
C) G.K. Chesterton
D) C.S. Lewis
  • 9. Who authored the Summa Theologica?
A) Augustine of Hippo
B) Bonaventure
C) Jacobus de Voragine
D) Thomas Aquinas
  • 10. Which author wrote The Screwtape Letters?
A) C.S. Lewis
B) John Bunyan
C) G.K. Chesterton
D) George MacDonald
  • 11. Who is the author of Paradise Lost?
A) John Milton
B) Joost van den Vondel
C) Dante Alighieri
D) John Bunyan
  • 12. Which periodical is published quarterly and focuses on literature's encounters with Christian thought?
A) Christian Letters
B) Theological Review
C) Literary Faith
D) Christianity & Literature
  • 13. Who wrote Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ?
A) Thomas Mann
B) Lew Wallace
C) Fyodor Dostoyevsky
D) Charles Dickens
  • 14. Which saint's life was written by Athanasius of Alexandria?
A) St. Jerome
B) St. Anthony
C) St. Francis of Assisi
D) St. Paul
  • 15. Who wrote the Imitation of Christ?
A) Thomas Aquinas
B) Thomas Mann
C) Thomas à Kempis
D) Thomas Malory
  • 16. Which utopian work was written by Tommaso Campanella?
A) The Divine Comedy
B) The Pilgrim's Progress
C) The City of the Sun
D) City of God
  • 17. Who wrote The Brothers Karamazov?
A) Nikos Kazantzakis
B) Leo Tolstoy
C) Fyodor Dostoyevsky
D) Gustave Flaubert
  • 18. Which book was written by G.K. Chesterton?
A) Paradise Lost
B) The Screwtape Letters
C) The Great Divorce
D) Orthodoxy
  • 19. Who wrote the novel The Last Temptation of Christ?
A) Lloyd C. Douglas
B) Fyodor Dostoyevsky
C) Nikos Kazantzakis
D) Thomas Mann
  • 20. Who is the author of A Christmas Carol?
A) George MacDonald
B) John Bunyan
C) Charles Dickens
D) Lew Wallace
  • 21. What literary style uses symbolic figures or actions to express Christian truths?
A) Christian allegory
B) Christian biography
C) Christian poetry
D) Christian historical fiction
  • 22. Who is credited with starting the tradition of Christian allegory according to the text?
A) John Bunyan
B) C. S. Lewis
C) Dante Alighieri
D) Jesus
  • 23. Which of these is mentioned as an example of Christian allegory?
A) The Pilgrim's Progress
B) Left Behind
C) Hinds' Feet on High Places
D) The Lord of the Rings
  • 24. In which author's work are Christian themes said to be kept below the surface?
A) John Bunyan
B) Hannah Hurnard
C) J. R. R. Tolkien
D) Jerry B. Jenkins
  • 25. Which awards honor excellence in the genre of Christian novels written by and for a specific subculture?
A) The Evangelical Book Awards
B) The Lewis Awards
C) The Tolkien Prizes
D) The Christy Awards
  • 26. Where is the specific subculture that gave rise to a particular genre of Christian novel mainly located?
A) Western Europe
B) South America
C) North America
D) Australia
  • 27. Which of these is cited as an example of fiction aimed at wider mainstream audiences?
A) Hinds' Feet on High Places
B) Left Behind series
C) The Lord of the Rings
D) The Divine Comedy
  • 28. What technological advancement transformed the spread of Christian works?
A) The radio
B) The printing press
C) The camera
D) The telegraph
  • 29. What is the purpose of Christian devotionals?
A) To document scientific history
B) To help grow closer to God
C) To critique modern art
D) To explain the law of physics
  • 30. What is a small pamphlet used for proselytization called?
A) A tract
B) A treatise
C) A commentary
D) A hagiography
  • 31. Which version of the Bible is considered a masterpiece of English prose?
A) The Gutenberg Bible
B) King James Version
C) The Latin Vulgate
D) The modern literal version
  • 32. In what year was The Pilgrim's Progress published?
A) 1517
B) 1678
C) 1450
D) 1800
  • 33. Which author was inspired by Bunyan’s tale?
A) John Milton
B) Dante Alighieri
C) Vincent van Gogh
D) Gutenberg
  • 34. What type of writing was common in early Christian times?
A) Mystery novels
B) Non-fiction
C) Science fiction
D) Romantic poetry
  • 35. What is the study of early Christian writers called?
A) Hagiography
B) Proselytization
C) Theology
D) Patristics
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