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