E-Quip Quizzes – St. Aidan's Orthodox Church

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Welcome to your E-Quip Quizzes!

Each Quiz is on a new page and there are 10 questions in each.

Each Quiz is based on a talk or talks in our Archdiocesan "E-Quip Course in Orthodox Faith and Life" linked on the index list below.

You do not have to read the relevant E-Quip talk(s) first but you may get a higher score if you do.

You can have two attempts only for each Quiz. After completion you will get the results with explanations where appropriate. Good quizzing!

INDEX LISTS FOR QUIZ RESEARCH AND LINKS TO ALL THE QUIZZES

Each Term has a group of quizzes on a varying number connected pages covering all 10 talks.
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Within a Term you navigate to the next Quiz for the Term using the navigation buttons NEXT and PREVIOUS at the foot of each Quiz page.
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It will take several weeks for all the Quizzes covering the 9 Terms to appear here. Please check back regularly.

E-Quip Year 1 Term 1 Talks

Year 1 Term 1 Quizzes all start from this page.

Select the "Next" button at the foot of the page to move on to the next quiz.

Year 1 Term 1 Quiz 1 is based on Talks 1A1 and 1A2.

Year 1 Term 1 Quiz 2 is based on Talks 1A3, 1A4 and 1A5

Year 1 Term 1 Quiz 3 is based on Talk 1A6

Year 1 Term 1 Quiz 4 is based on Talk 1A7

Year 1 Term 1 Quiz 5 is based on Talk 1A8

Year 1 Term 1 Quiz 6 is based on Talk 1A9

Year 1 Term 1 Quiz 7 is based on Talk 1A10

TO THE QUIZZES FOR YEAR 1 TERM 2

Year 1 Term 1 Quiz 1 Question 1Which monk said: "If you are a true theologian, you will pray. If you truly pray, you are a true theologian"?

St Antony the Great

St John the Faster

Evagrius of Pontus

St Symeon Stylites

Year 1 Term 1 Quiz 1 Question 2Is there scope to be inexact or uncertain in Orthodox Christian Theology?

Yes

Year 1 Term 1 Quiz 1 Question 3How many theologians with that title (Theologian) have there been in the Orthodox Church?

Too many to count

Year 1 Term 1 Quiz 1 Question 4Who can experience directly the Uncreated Light?

Only some monks

Only some monks who are also elders or saints

Only the ordained

In principle, everyone

Year 1 Term 1 Quiz 1 Question 5Which of these did St Basil instruct his students that they should NOT study?

Mathematics

Logic

Literature

None of these

Year 1 Term 1 Quiz 1 Question 6Are we all born with the impulse to know God?

Only those who will show this later in life, not from birth

Only in those born to believing parents

Some people perhaps but not all

Yes, all are born with this

Year 1 Term 1 Quiz 1 Question 7How can we know God directly and in our experience of Him?

In His Essence

In His Energies

By reading the Scriptures, the Fathers or the Lives of the Saints

By doing good deeds

Year 1 Term 1 Quiz 1 Question 8Which is the theology of what God is NOT?

Cataphatic theology

Acrobatic theology

Instamatic theology

Apophatic theology

Year 1 Term 1 Quiz 1 Question 9Which is NOT an acceptable rendering of God's Name in the appearance to Moses in the Burning Bush?

He Who Is

Yahweh

I am who I am

I will be who I will be

Lord

Year 1 Term 1 Quiz 1 Question 10Which term CANNOT be applied to God?

Unchangeable

Ineffable

Inconstant

Inconceivable

Year 1 Term 1 Quiz 2 Question 1Only one of these is correct when it comes to truth according to Orthodox Christianity. Which one?

Relativism

Compartmentalism

Postmodernism

Recapitulation

Year 1 Term 1 Quiz 2 Question 2In the gospels, what did Pontius Pilate say about truth?

"What do I know?!"

"Truth does not concern me."

"What is Truth?"

"Do you promise to tell the truth?"

Year 1 Term 1 Quiz 2 Question 3Which of these does NOT appear in the classical Greek triad alongside Truth?

Beauty

Strength

Goodness

Year 1 Term 1 Quiz 2 Question 4Is theology should appear to disagree with science, which should give way?

Theology

Science

Hypothetical question. In principle there can never be a conflict.

Neither, "live and let live."

Year 1 Term 1 Quiz 2 Question 5Which best describes the content of Tradition in the Church?

Scripture alone

Scripture as interpreted by the Fathers

All canonical textual and oral traditions

Scripture at the core of Tradition together with the Fathers, Councils, Saints, Services and Liturgical Arts

Year 1 Term 1 Quiz 2 Question 6How long approximately after Pentecost did it take for the New Testament canon of 27 books to be agreed by the Church?

3 years

30 years

300 years

400 years

Year 1 Term 1 Quiz 2 Question 7Which one of these does NOT bind the beliefs of Orthodox Christians for salvation?

Dogma

Theologumena

Doctrine

Year 1 Term 1 Quiz 2 Question 8Which collection and translation of the Old Testament do the Orthodox use in their Bibles?

The Masoretic Text

The Vulgate

The Peshitta

The Septuagint

Year 1 Term 1 Quiz 2 Question 9Which of these is NOT an original language in which at least some of the biblical text was written?

Latin

Greek

Aramaic

Hebrew

Year 1 Term 1 Quiz 2 Question 10Which of these is NOT an appropriate tool for understanding the meaning of Scripture?

Typology

The plain historical sense in context

Allegory

Proof texting

Year 1 Term 1 Quiz 3 Question 1Where should we live?

In hopes for tomorrow

Not bound by space or time

In the present moment

In our imaginings

Year 1 Term 1 Quiz 3 Question 2Which of these is NOT an Orthodox theological conception of humanity?

In the image of God

To differing degrees, in the likeness of God

Of a corrupted nature since the fall

With the potential to be deified

Year 1 Term 1 Quiz 3 Question 3Which one of these is true concerning Mary, the others being false?

She was compelled by divine grace to give birth to the Saviour

She was a sinner until her death

She was a virgin only at the conception of Jesus, not afterwards

She is the Theotokos - the Birth-Giver of God

Year 1 Term 1 Quiz 3 Question 4In relation to God, humanity is best compared to which of these?

A noun

An adverb

A conjunction

An adjective

Year 1 Term 1 Quiz 3 Question 5The goal of deification is best seen as which one of these?

Solely a work of grace

A choice we make

Something that only happens when we die.

A process in which our will and God's will become perfectly aligned

Year 1 Term 1 Quiz 3 Question 6Which of these is NOT a guaranteed path to theosis (deification)?

Eros in marriage

Asceticism for all

Agape as sacrifice

Theological study

Year 1 Term 1 Quiz 3 Question 7What are we? (choose only one, the rest are heresies!)

A divine spark imprisoned in a body

Rotten to the core

Embodied souls recovering our divine beauty

Angels in disguise

Year 1 Term 1 Quiz 3 Question 8Which of this is a true definition of the "passions" in the Orthodox Christianity?

Expressing conviction about something that is good or that we like or believe in

Disordered desires

Sexual love

The sufferings of martyrs before death

Year 1 Term 1 Quiz 3 Question 9What is the meaning of "using your nous" in Orthodox Christian anthropology?

Using your commonsense

Using your intuition

Using your spiritual intellect

Using your rational faculties

Year 1 Term 1 Quiz 3 Question 10Which Church Father said: "The glory of God is a living human; the life of the human is the vision of God"?

St Augustine of Hippo

St Gregory the Theologian

St John Chrysostom

St Irenaeus of Lyon

Year 1 Term 1 Quiz 4 Question 1What is the Orthodox term for the sin of our First Parents?

Generational Sin

Original Sin

Ancestral Sin

Mortal Sin

Year 1 Term 1 Quiz 4 Question 2In what did the sin of our First Parents consist?

Lust

Autonomy and self-sufficiency

Hiding from God

Breaking the Law

Year 1 Term 1 Quiz 4 Question 3Which of these is the key understanding of the Greek Fathers concerning humans in the Garden of Eden?

They were perfect and immortal.

They were like children and therefore immature.

They were neither good nor bad.

They were without understanding.

Year 1 Term 1 Quiz 4 Question 4Which of these descriptions of the effects of sin is NOT to be found in Fathers, (except St Augustine).

A tarnished mirror

A cloud that obstructs the vision of God

A total and fatal corruption in our nature

An erosion in human spiritual capacities

Year 1 Term 1 Quiz 4 Question 5Was the eviction of Adam and Eve from Paradise ....

A punishment?

A mercy?

A judgement?

An expression of divine wrath?

Year 1 Term 1 Quiz 4 Question 6What do humans NOT inherit from their First Parents?

Death

An inclination to sin

The cumulative guilt of humanity

A compromised will

Year 1 Term 1 Quiz 4 Question 7How are the effects of the Fall transmitted down the ages?

Sexual intercourse

Death

The work of the devil

Selfishness

Year 1 Term 1 Quiz 4 Question 8Was the mark that God gave Cain ...

A branding for being a murderer?

A perpetual reminder to Cain of his crime?

A divine mark of protection from the excesses of human passion and the law?

A mark for damnation?

Year 1 Term 1 Quiz 4 Question 9Which Father coined the term "recapitulation" for the gathering together in the Incarnation all that was to be saved?

St Augustine of Hippo

St Ambrose of Milan

St Irenaeus Of Lyon

St Ignatius of Antioch

Year 1 Term 1 Quiz 4 Question 10Which non-Orthodox western saint arguably introduced the concept of feudal honour into God's judgement on sin, making of Christ's death a propitiation of God's wrath?

Anselm of Canterbury

Bernard of Clairvaux

Hildegard of Bingen

Gilbert of Sempringham

Year 1 Term 1 Quiz 5 Question 1Only one of these statements is correct. Which one?

Christianity could survive even if its historical references collapsed.

Christianity respects history but salvation and faith transcend history.

Christianity teaches that God acts through historical events and persons, past, present and future..

History is only the narrative of those who have rule at the time so Christians should focus on God instead.

Year 1 Term 1 Quiz 5 Question 2Which best describes salvation?

What God has done for us in Christ, so that for those who repent salvation has already happened.

Salvation is what will happen on the Last Day when believers will go to heaven.

Salvation happens when someone experiences new birth.

Salvation is a process. We cooperate with God's grace so what He has done for us in the past can endure from now into the future and bear fruit.

Year 1 Term 1 Quiz 5 Question 3Which of these is a FALSE understanding of the Church in Orthodoxy?

There is no salvation outside the Church.

The Church is nothing more than a company of individuals who have accepted Christ as Lord and Saviour.

The Church in some sense is an extension of the Incarnation because she continues Christ's saving work.

The Church is the pillar and bulwark of the Truth.

Year 1 Term 1 Quiz 5 Question 4From its Semitic root what phrase best describes "qahal" (from which we derive "ecclesia") as a synonym for "church."

The assembly of those called out by God

The body of Christ

The bride of Christ

The company of believers

Year 1 Term 1 Quiz 5 Question 5Who of these was NOT a Jew?

St Paul

St Photini

Jesus

St Nicodemus

Year 1 Term 1 Quiz 5 Question 6Which does NOT describes Muslims from an Orthodox Christian point of view?

Ishmaelites

Pagans

Children of Hagar

Monotheists

Year 1 Term 1 Quiz 5 Question 7Which of these Hindu beliefs is compatible to some degree with Orthodox Christianity?

Reincarnation

Transmigration of souls

Mystical absorption into the Cosmic Spirit

Deification

Year 1 Term 1 Quiz 5 Question 8Which of these describes the idea that earth is unique in the universe - a position which rules out consideration of the work of God elsewhere and separate from us?

Anthropomorphism

Terracentric exceptionalism

Expansive universalism

Salvific minimalism

Year 1 Term 1 Quiz 5 Question 9Which of these is NOT listed by St Ephrem the Syrian as a medicine of the Great Physician (Christ)?

Bread

Wine

Chrism

Water

Year 1 Term 1 Quiz 5 Question 10What does "eschatology" refer to?

The Atonement

The Gift of the Holy Spirit

The End Times

The doctrine of the Church

Year 1 Term 1 Quiz 6 Question 1What did the fourth Ecumenical Council define?

The divinity of Christ

The humanity of Christ

The single Person of the Logos in two distinct natures, human and divine, united without confusion.

Mary as Theotokos

Year 1 Term 1 Quiz 6 Question 2Which heresy did Chalcedon mainly fight against?

Nestorianism

Monophysitism

Arianism

Modalism

Year 1 Term 1 Quiz 6 Question 3Which Pope contributed his Tome to the 4th Council?

Pope Sixtus III

Pope Celestine I

Pope Leo I

Pope Hilary

Year 1 Term 1 Quiz 6 Question 4According to the Pope in the answer to Question 3 is the human nature of Christ ....

Different from ours?

Similar to ours?

The same as ours?

Only different to ours after resurrection?

Year 1 Term 1 Quiz 6 Question 5Which of these does (and would) Chalcedon NOT agree with?

Humans are relational in their personhood.

The Trinity is the perfect expression of the relational love mirrored also in a perfected humanity.

Humans are persons not individuals.

There is no such thing as society, only individuals.

Year 1 Term 1 Quiz 6 Question 6Is Cyril of Alexandria's christological formula: "one nature of God, the Logos Incarnate" Orthodox or not? Choose the answer with the correct explanation.

No, there are two natures in Christ.

No, it doesn't give sufficient weight to the humanity of Christ.

Yes, when "nature" is correctly understood as referring to the single consubstantial ousia (Godhead) shared equally by all 3 hypostases and "Logos Incarnate" referring to the humanity of the single Personhood of Christ.

Yes, because "nature" is the same as "person".

Year 1 Term 1 Quiz 6 Question 7Which of these is incorrect?

The divine Logos is the sole personal subject (hypostasis) of the Christ.

The deification of humanity is effected by the Incarnation of God in human history.

Jesus the carpenter of Nazareth is also the God the the Cosmos.

The humanity of Jesus was dissolved into his divinity as to become indistinguishable.

Year 1 Term 1 Quiz 6 Question 8St Maximos the Confessor some 200 years later than Chalcedon, explored Chalcedonian Christology in terms of the transformative overcoming of 5 Fall-induced polarities, separations or fractures. 4 of these are stated below. Which one has the STRONGEST significance and meaning for the rejection of cremation by the Orthodox?

God and creation

Spiritual and physical

Heaven and earth

Paradise and the world

Year 1 Term 1 Quiz 6 Question 9Upon which other Councils does the 4th at Chalcedon depend?

The first

The Second

The Third

All the first three

Year 1 Term 1 Quiz 6 Question 10Which church or family of churches does NOT accept the 4th Council of Chalcedon?

The Roman Catholic Church

The Anglican Church

The Oriental Orthodox Churches

The Lutheran Church (MIssouri Synod)

Year 1 Term 1 Quiz 7 Question 1Which of these is NOT a tree in the Scriptures?

The Tree of Life

The Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil

The Tree of the Cross

The Tree of the World

Year 1 Term 1 Quiz 7 Question 2Select the the description which applies to our will in the process of being saved.

Our will is compromised by sin and, therefore, plays no part in our salvation.

Our will, notwithstanding its impairment by sin, is fully engaged within its capacity, and being energised by God's grace. It can freely chooses to do God's will, albeit imperfectly.

Our will, being free and unimpaired, can work in perfect harmony with God's will for our salvation.

Our sovereign will can, in the end, override even God's will and sovereignty.

Year 1 Term 1 Quiz 7 Question 3Which of these is NOT a key theme in the saving work of Christ by his death and resurrection?

Exemplarism

Justification

Sacrifice

Redemption

Year 1 Term 1 Quiz 7 Question 4In respect of His sacrificial death for all upon the Cross, Christ is which of these? (Choose the best answer).,

Priest

Victim

Priest and Victim

Neither Priest nor Victim.

Year 1 Term 1 Quiz 7 Question 5Is sacrifice alone an adequate explanation of Christ's saving work?

Yes, because it is by sacrifice that his death is for the forgiveness of our sins.

No, because sacrifice does not include the resurrection which completes His saving work.

Year 1 Term 1 Quiz 7 Question 6Only one of these is correct according to Orthodox Christian teaching. Which?

Christ substituted Himself for us, as someone unjustly condemned for sin, so that we can avoid hell and gain heaven.

Justification and sanctification are both necessary elements in God's saving plan.

Because we have been justified by the death of Christ this means that once accepted by God we can never lose our salvation.

God's anger is averted by the death of His Son.

Year 1 Term 1 Quiz 7 Question 7Redemption is a ransom and applies to liberation from 3 different types of bondage or enslavement. Which of these does NOT belong to this definition?

Captivity

Debt

Slavery

Rules

Year 1 Term 1 Quiz 7 Question 8

Rereferring to the Greek word: "lutrow" (buying off) ....

In the redeeming work of Christ, BOTH in His death AND His resurrection, to whom or what was the ransom paid?

To the devil

To the Father

The just requirements of the Law

None of these. Ransom is a metaphor of liberation from humanity's self imprisonment.

Year 1 Term 1 Quiz 7 Question 9

Referring to the Greek word "agorazo" (to buy for oneself) ....

Ransom in this sense brings to mind that having being set free by God the following applies .... but which one? Three answers are incorrect.

We can now do what we like.

We can serve the Lord as children of God, obeying His will, not through fear, but out of love for the Lover of Mankind.

We must always do what our spiritual father tell us.

Blind obedience is the safest form of obedience.

Year 1 Term 1 Quiz 7 Question 10What is God's final act of redemption?

When every last human that can be saved is saved.

When the there is no one left to preach the gospel.

Only if and when there are no more human beings.

When the Cosmos itself is made new in the resurrection.

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