Fall 2020 NBST 520
Test Quiz: The Prison and Pastoral Epistles
Status Completed
Attempt Score 100 out of 100 points
Instructions
Covers all Reading and Study materials from Modules 7-8: Weeks 7-8, including textbooks and
presentations,
Contains 20 multiple-choice and true/false questions,
Is limited to 1 hour,
Allows 1 attempt,
Is worth 100 points.
Question 1
5 out of 5 points
According to Elwell, Paul’s emphasis on good works in such places as his Letter to Titus should serve as a
reminder that his statements on justification by faith should not be taken to mean that good works are
optional or unimportant.
Selected Answer:
True
Question 2
5 out of 5 points
According to the presentations, Paul quotes creedal material (hymns, confessions, creeds) already
familiar to the audience as a way of reminding them of what they already know and believe.
Selected Answer:
True
Question 3
5 out of 5 points
According to Elwell, the view that the Colossian heresy has more in common with first-century Jewish
sects than Gnosticism is promising but inconclusive at this point.
Selected Answer:
True
Question 4
5 out of 5 points
According to Elwell, in discussing the role of women in the New Testament, Christians today should
regard New Testament directives as outmoded if they are out of step with modern times.
Selected Answer:
False
Question 5
5 out of 5 points
According to the presentations, the words “in Ephesus” do not appear in the best and earliest
manuscripts of Ephesians.
Selected Answer:
True
Question 6
5 out of 5 points
According to the presentations, Timothy is the signatory, along with Paul, of six Pauline letters.
Selected Answer:
True
Question 7
5 out of 5 point
Paul’s famous “hymn” extolling the self-sacrificing “mind of Christ” is found in which of Paul’s Prison
Letters?
Selected Answer:
Philippians
Question 8
5 out of 5 points
According to Elwell, the city of Thessalonica suffered from financial hardship in Paul’s day in part because
it was a backwoods village “off the beaten path.”
Selected Answer:
False
Question 9
5 out of 5 points
According to the presentions, while 1 and 2 Timothy and Titus are ostensibly written to individuals, it is
really the congregations they serve that are the real audiences of these letters.
Selected Answer:
True
Question 10
5 out of 5 points
According to the presentations, the Pauline letter that comes off a bit like a “last will and testament” is
Selected Answer:
2 Timothy
Question 11
5 out of 5 points
According to Elwell, how God’s people treat the created order is a reflection of their regard for God.
Selected Answer:
True
Question 12
5 out of 5 points
According to Elwell, New Testament figures who came from or lived in Colossae include Epaphras,
Philemon, Apphia, Archippus, and Onesimus.
Selected Answer:
True
Question 13
5 out of 5 points
Paul describes the parousia , or “the day of the LORD,” as coming “like a thief in the night” in which
letter?
Selected Answer:
1 Thessalonians
Question 14
5 out of 5 points
According to Elwell, there is evidence that Paul, having been released from his imprisonment in Rome,
embarked on a fourth missionary journey.
Selected Answer:
True
Question 15
5 out of 5 points
According to Elwell, the Laodiceans were to receive a copy of which of Paul’s letters?
Selected Answer:
Colossians
Question 16
5 out of 5 points
According to Elwell, the cultural background of the ancient city of Ephesus suggests that the occult may
furnish important background for understanding Paul’s Letter to the Ephesians.
Selected Answer:
True
Question 17
5 out of 5 points
According to the presentations, the word Paul used to describe those who would not work, ataktoi, most
likely means “disorderly” rather than “lazy.”
Selected Answer:
True
Question 18
5 out of 5 points
According to the presentations, which of the following is NOT one of the reasons critics argue that Paul is
irrelevant in today’s world?
Selected Answer:
anti-intellectualism
Question 19
5 out of 5 points
According to Elwell, when Paul wrote to Timothy in 1 and 2 Timothy, Timothy was apparently serving as a
pastor in the city of Ephesus.
Selected Answer:
True
Question 20
5 out of 5 points
Thessalonica lay along which important Roman road?
Selected Answer:
Via Egnatia
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