Humanities 102: Quiz 16 (February 22, 2023)

For each of the following questions, select the answer that most fully or accurately completes the sentence or answers the question and captures the significance of the question. In some cases the responses may range in value from zero to three, and for others more than one response might be worth the maximum of three points.

Name

The narrative of Jesus' life attributed to Matthew begins with

A quote from Isaiah about someone who would cry "out in the wilderness" and prepare "the way of the Lord."

An account of the encounter between the angel Gabriel and Zechariah, the husband of Elizabeth.

The pronouncement that Jesus existed with god before the creation of the world.

A genealogy that traces Jesus' lineage from Abraham through David to Joseph.

According to the account of Jesus' life attributed to Matthew, shortly after Jesus' birth

Three wise men from the East visited King Herod having followed a star, asking to see the newly born king of the Jews.

An angel appeared to Joseph instructing him to take Jesus and Mary to Egypt.

Three wise men from the East paid homage to Jesus, whom they found in Bethlehem where Joseph and Mary had traveled in response to an order by Augustus to conduct a census.

An angel appeared to shepherds in the pasture lands around Bethlehem announcing to them the birth of the Messiah.

According to the biography attributed to Matthew, which is the correct order of events as Jesus began his teaching?

Jesus spends forty days and nights fasting in the wilderness, John the Baptist baptizes Jesus in the Jordan River, Jesus calls his first disciples, Jesus speaks to a crowd of people in a mountain.

Jesus speaks to a crowd of people in a mountain, John the Baptist baptizes Jesus in the Jordan River, Jesus calls his first disciples, Jesus spends forty days and nights fasting in the wilderness.

John the Baptist baptizes Jesus in the Jordan River, Jesus spends forty days and nights fasting in the wilderness, Jesus calls his first disciples, Jesus speaks to a crowd of people in a mountain.

Jesus calls his first disciples, Jesus speaks to a crowd of people in a mountain, John the Baptist baptizes Jesus in the Jordan River, Jesus spends forty days and nights fasting in the wilderness.

Jesus first demonstrated his ability to work miracles by

Changing water to wine at a marriage in Cena.

Calming the wind and waves during a storm as they crossed the Sea of Galilee.

Removing demons from two men and sending them into a herd of pigs, who rushed into the water and drowned.

Casting out demons and healing the sick.

In the account of the resurrection as recorded in the biography attributed to Matthew

An angel announces to Mary Magdaline and Mary, the mother of James, that Jesus has "been raised" and tells the women to go and inform the disciples.

The guards informed the high priests of Jesus’ resurrection, and the priest instructed them to say that Jesus’ disciples came in the night and stole the body.

Jesus first appears to his followers on a mountain in Galilee.

Jesus first appears to women who were there to attend to the body.