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  • 1. In which year was the Third Ecumenical Council held?
A) 325
B) 431
C) 451
D) 787
  • 2. Where did the Third Ecumenical Council take place?
A) Chalcedon
B) Nicaea
C) Ephesus
D) Constantinople
  • 3. What title was formally affirmed for Mary at the Third Ecumenical Council?
A) Birth-giver of God
B) Mother of Christ
C) Christotokos
D) Theotokos
  • 4. Who advocated that Mary should be called 'Christotokos'?
A) Patriarch Nestorius of Constantinople
B) John Chrysostom
C) Cyril of Alexandria
D) Athanasius
  • 5. What did the term 'Christotokos' imply about Mary's role?
A) Mother of the Trinity
B) Birth-giver of both Christ and God
C) Mother of God
D) Mother of Christ's humanity only
  • 6. Who led the opposition against Nestorius' view?
A) John Cassian
B) Pope Leo I
C) Cyril of Alexandria
D) Augustine of Hippo
  • 7. What was the theological issue with Nestorius' view according to Cyril?
A) It affirmed Arianism.
B) It suggested two persons in Christ.
C) It supported Pelagianism.
D) It denied Christ's divinity.
  • 8. What Christological view did the council affirm?
A) Apollinarian Christology
B) One-nature Christology
C) Arian Christology
D) Two-nature Christology
  • 9. What was anathematized as heresy by the council?
A) Arianism
B) Pelagianism
C) Monophysitism
D) Nestorianism
  • 10. How did Cyril of Alexandria describe the union of the Word and flesh?
A) United by nature, not turned into flesh.
B) Conjoined through dignity and authority.
C) Joined only in honor.
D) Juxtaposed but separate natures.
  • 11. What did Cyril mean by 'not with the sort of conjunction that a human being might have with God'?
A) It indicated a temporary association.
B) It meant they were separate entities.
C) It referred to a symbolic relationship.
D) The union was not merely honorary or authoritative.
  • 12. What term did Cyril reject as inadequate for expressing the union of Word and flesh?
A) 'Conjunction'
B) 'Fusion'
C) 'Synthesis'
D) 'Integration'
  • 13. According to Cyril, what does it mean when he says 'the holy virgin gave birth in the flesh to God united with the flesh according to hypostasis'?
A) Christ had two distinct persons.
B) Mary only bore Christ's humanity.
C) The divinity of Christ was separate from his humanity.
D) Mary bore Jesus as both fully divine and fully human.
  • 14. What consequence did Cyril state for not confessing that 'Emmanuel is, in truth, God'?
A) Excommunication
B) Anathema
C) Absolution
D) Penance
  • 15. Which Egyptian goddess was originally associated with the title 'Theotokos'?
A) Hathor
B) Athena
C) Isis
D) Osiris
  • 16. What is the oldest preserved hymn dedicated to the Virgin Mary called?
A) Magnificat
B) Salve Regina
C) Ave Maria
D) Beneath thy Compassion
  • 17. In which century is the oldest record of the hymn 'Beneath thy Compassion' mostly dated?
A) 6th century
B) 5th century
C) 4th century
D) After 450
  • 18. Who suggested that the hymn 'Beneath thy Compassion' might date back to the mid-3rd century?
A) Henri de Villiers
B) Gregory of Nazianzus
C) Augustine of Hippo
D) John Cassian
  • 19. According to Gregory of Nazianzus, what is the consequence of not confessing that Mary is Theotokos?
A) One is considered a heretic.
B) One is excommunicated.
C) One is found to be far from God.
D) One is deemed ignorant.
  • 20. In which century did the title 'Theotokos' start being used?
A) 5th century
B) 4th century
C) 6th century
D) 3rd century
  • 21. What does the Greek word 'τόκος' translate to?
A) Childbirth, parturition; offspring
B) Virgin
C) Mother
D) God
  • 22. Which of the following is a Church Slavonic translation for Theotokos?
A) Mētrótheos
B) Theomētōr
C) Deipara
D) Bogoroditsa
  • 23. Which language uses the term 'Gottesgebärerin' to translate Theotokos?
A) Latin
B) German
C) Arabic
D) Russian
  • 24. Which empire did the Church of the East exist in?
A) Byzantine Empire
B) Roman Empire
C) Sasanian Empire
D) Ottoman Empire
  • 25. What language did the Church of the East predominantly use?
A) Greek
B) Arabic
C) Syriac
D) Latin
  • 26. Who wrote in his Book of the Union about Mary being called Mother of God?
A) Theodore of Mopsuestia
B) Cyril of Alexandria
C) Babai the Great
D) Nestorius
  • 27. Which hymn is most commonly used in Eastern Orthodox services?
A) "Hail Mary"
B) "Axion Estin"
C) "Bogurodzica"
D) "Salus Populi Romani"
  • 28. Which early Russian icons were imports from?
A) "Athens"
B) "Rome"
C) "Constantinople"
D) "Byzantium"
  • 29. Who is associated with promoting the cult of the Virgin and depicted in Santa Maria in Trastevere?
A) "John Calvin"
B) "Pope John VII"
C) "The Patriarch Mar Dinkha IV"
D) "Martin Luther"
  • 30. Which hymn replaces Axion Estin during the Divine Liturgy on Sundays of Great Lent?
A) "All creation rejoices"
B) "Bogurodzica"
C) "Hail Mary in its Eastern form"
D) "Sub tuum praesidium"
  • 31. What was the impact of Byzantine Iconoclasm on early icons?
A) "They were all preserved in monasteries"
B) "Most were destroyed"
C) "They were moved to Rome"
D) "They became more popular"
  • 32. Which icon is a 5th or 6th-century Byzantine icon preserved in Rome?
A) "Salus Populi Romani"
B) "Santa Maria Maggiore mosaic"
C) "Agiosoritissa"
D) "Blachernitissa"
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