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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) Romantic play
B) Mystery play
C) Satirical play
D) Morality play
  • 3. Which university is associated with the editors of the journal Christianity & Literature?
A) Oxford University
B) Yale University
C) Azusa Pacific University
D) Cambridge University
  • 4. Who wrote The Confessions of St. Augustine?
A) Augustine of Hippo
B) Dante Alighieri
C) Thomas Aquinas
D) St. Jerome
  • 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) Petrarch
B) Dante Alighieri
C) Thomas Malory
D) John Milton
  • 7. In which centuries did the church generally attempt to suppress theatre?
A) Twentieth and twenty-first
B) Fourteenth and fifteenth
C) Sixteenth and seventeenth
D) Eighteenth and nineteenth
  • 8. Who wrote The Pilgrim's Progress?
A) John Bunyan
B) G.K. Chesterton
C) C.S. Lewis
D) John Milton
  • 9. Who authored the Summa Theologica?
A) Jacobus de Voragine
B) Augustine of Hippo
C) Thomas Aquinas
D) Bonaventure
  • 10. Which author wrote The Screwtape Letters?
A) John Bunyan
B) C.S. Lewis
C) G.K. Chesterton
D) George MacDonald
  • 11. Who is the author of Paradise Lost?
A) Dante Alighieri
B) John Milton
C) Joost van den Vondel
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) Christianity & Literature
D) Literary Faith
  • 13. Who wrote Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ?
A) Lew Wallace
B) Fyodor Dostoyevsky
C) Charles Dickens
D) Thomas Mann
  • 14. Which saint's life was written by Athanasius of Alexandria?
A) St. Paul
B) St. Jerome
C) St. Francis of Assisi
D) St. Anthony
  • 15. Who wrote the Imitation of Christ?
A) Thomas Mann
B) Thomas Aquinas
C) Thomas à Kempis
D) Thomas Malory
  • 16. Which utopian work was written by Tommaso Campanella?
A) City of God
B) The Pilgrim's Progress
C) The City of the Sun
D) The Divine Comedy
  • 17. Who wrote The Brothers Karamazov?
A) Gustave Flaubert
B) Nikos Kazantzakis
C) Leo Tolstoy
D) Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  • 18. Which book was written by G.K. Chesterton?
A) The Great Divorce
B) The Screwtape Letters
C) Orthodoxy
D) Paradise Lost
  • 19. Who wrote the novel The Last Temptation of Christ?
A) Thomas Mann
B) Fyodor Dostoyevsky
C) Lloyd C. Douglas
D) Nikos Kazantzakis
  • 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 poetry
C) Christian biography
D) Christian historical fiction
  • 22. Who is credited with starting the tradition of Christian allegory according to the text?
A) C. S. Lewis
B) John Bunyan
C) Jesus
D) Dante Alighieri
  • 23. Which of these is mentioned as an example of Christian allegory?
A) Hinds' Feet on High Places
B) The Pilgrim's Progress
C) The Lord of the Rings
D) Left Behind
  • 24. In which author's work are Christian themes said to be kept below the surface?
A) Jerry B. Jenkins
B) J. R. R. Tolkien
C) Hannah Hurnard
D) John Bunyan
  • 25. Which awards honor excellence in the genre of Christian novels written by and for a specific subculture?
A) The Christy Awards
B) The Lewis Awards
C) The Tolkien Prizes
D) The Evangelical Book Awards
  • 26. Where is the specific subculture that gave rise to a particular genre of Christian novel mainly located?
A) Australia
B) North America
C) Western Europe
D) South America
  • 27. Which of these is cited as an example of fiction aimed at wider mainstream audiences?
A) The Divine Comedy
B) Hinds' Feet on High Places
C) Left Behind series
D) The Lord of the Rings
  • 28. What technological advancement transformed the spread of Christian works?
A) The telegraph
B) The printing press
C) The radio
D) The camera
  • 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 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 modern literal version
B) The Latin Vulgate
C) King James Version
D) The Gutenberg Bible
  • 32. In what year was The Pilgrim's Progress published?
A) 1450
B) 1800
C) 1678
D) 1517
  • 33. Which author was inspired by Bunyan’s tale?
A) Dante Alighieri
B) Vincent van Gogh
C) Gutenberg
D) John Milton
  • 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) Patristics
C) Theology
D) Proselytization
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