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  • 1. What kind of plays were frequently performed in European churches during the medieval period?
A) Puppet shows
B) Comedy plays
C) Tragedy plays
D) Mystery plays
  • 2. What type of play developed in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries to exhort the audience to a virtuous life?
A) Satirical play
B) Romantic play
C) Mystery play
D) Morality play
  • 3. Which university is associated with the editors of the journal Christianity & Literature?
A) Yale University
B) Azusa Pacific University
C) Oxford University
D) Cambridge University
  • 4. Who wrote The Confessions of St. Augustine?
A) Augustine of Hippo
B) St. Jerome
C) Thomas Aquinas
D) Dante Alighieri
  • 5. Which work is considered the first epic of Christendom?
A) Psychomachia
B) Paradise Lost
C) Christiad
D) The Easter Song
  • 6. Who wrote The Divine Comedy?
A) Thomas Malory
B) John Milton
C) Dante Alighieri
D) Petrarch
  • 7. In which centuries did the church generally attempt to suppress theatre?
A) Fourteenth and fifteenth
B) Twentieth and twenty-first
C) Eighteenth and nineteenth
D) Sixteenth and seventeenth
  • 8. Who wrote The Pilgrim's Progress?
A) John Bunyan
B) John Milton
C) C.S. Lewis
D) G.K. Chesterton
  • 9. Who authored the Summa Theologica?
A) Thomas Aquinas
B) Jacobus de Voragine
C) Augustine of Hippo
D) Bonaventure
  • 10. Which author wrote The Screwtape Letters?
A) G.K. Chesterton
B) C.S. Lewis
C) John Bunyan
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) Literary Faith
B) Christianity & Literature
C) Christian Letters
D) Theological Review
  • 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 à Kempis
B) Thomas Malory
C) Thomas Aquinas
D) Thomas Mann
  • 16. Which utopian work was written by Tommaso Campanella?
A) The Pilgrim's Progress
B) City of God
C) The City of the Sun
D) The Divine Comedy
  • 17. Who wrote The Brothers Karamazov?
A) Fyodor Dostoyevsky
B) Leo Tolstoy
C) Nikos Kazantzakis
D) Gustave Flaubert
  • 18. Which book was written by G.K. Chesterton?
A) The Screwtape Letters
B) The Great Divorce
C) Orthodoxy
D) Paradise Lost
  • 19. Who wrote the novel The Last Temptation of Christ?
A) Nikos Kazantzakis
B) Thomas Mann
C) Lloyd C. Douglas
D) Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  • 20. Who is the author of A Christmas Carol?
A) Lew Wallace
B) George MacDonald
C) John Bunyan
D) Charles Dickens
  • 21. What literary style uses symbolic figures or actions to express Christian truths?
A) Christian biography
B) Christian poetry
C) Christian allegory
D) Christian historical fiction
  • 22. Who is credited with starting the tradition of Christian allegory according to the text?
A) Jesus
B) John Bunyan
C) Dante Alighieri
D) C. S. Lewis
  • 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) 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 Evangelical Book Awards
B) The Tolkien Prizes
C) The Christy Awards
D) The Lewis Awards
  • 26. Where is the specific subculture that gave rise to a particular genre of Christian novel mainly located?
A) South America
B) Western Europe
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 printing press
B) The telegraph
C) The camera
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 treatise
B) A hagiography
C) A tract
D) A commentary
  • 31. Which version of the Bible is considered a masterpiece of English prose?
A) The Gutenberg Bible
B) The Latin Vulgate
C) The modern literal version
D) King James Version
  • 32. In what year was The Pilgrim's Progress published?
A) 1800
B) 1678
C) 1450
D) 1517
  • 33. Which author was inspired by Bunyan’s tale?
A) John Milton
B) Dante Alighieri
C) Gutenberg
D) Vincent van Gogh
  • 34. What type of writing was common in early Christian times?
A) Science fiction
B) Mystery novels
C) Romantic poetry
D) Non-fiction
  • 35. What is the study of early Christian writers called?
A) Hagiography
B) Theology
C) Proselytization
D) Patristics
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