QUIZ FOR ACTS CHAPTER SEVENTEEN

8. According to Acts chapter seventeen, who stayed in Berea after the Christians sent St. Paulaway?a. St. Silas.b. Ss. Silas and Timothy.c. St. Timothy.9. According to Acts chapter seventeen, why was St. Paul’s spirit provoked in Athens?a. He saw that the city was given over to idols.b. He saw that the city was given over to philosophers.c. He saw that the city was given over to atheism.10. Fill in the blanks in this passage from Acts chapter seventeen: “Then certain __________ and__________ philosophers encountered him. And some said, ‘What does this babbler want tosay?’ Others said, ‘He seems to be a proclaimer of foreign gods,’ because he preached to themJesus and the resurrection.”a. Socratic; Platonic.b. Aristotelian; Cynic.c. Epicurean; Stoic.11. According to Acts chapter seventeen, where did the philosophers take St. Paul to hear himspeak about his “new doctrine?”a. The Acropolis.b. The Areopagus.c. The Parthenon.12. Paul found one particular altar in Athens very interesting and used it as a point of reference inhis sermon to the Athenians. What was the inscription on this altar?a. “TO THE UNKNOWN GOD.”b. “TO MIGHTY ATHENA.”c. “TO APOLLO, GOD OF THE SUN.”13. Fill in the blank in St. Paul’s speech on the Areopagus in Acts chapter seventeen: “And Hehas made from one blood[c] every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hasdetermined their ____________ times and the boundaries of their dwellings.”a. “Complete.”b. “Fulfilled.”c. “Preappointed.”14. Fill in the blank in St. Paul’s speech on the Areopagus in Acts chapter seventeen: “…so thatthey should seek the Lord, in the hope that they might grope for Him and find Him, though He isnot far from each one of us; for in Him _______________________, as also some of your ownpoets have said, ‘For we are also His offspring.’a. “We are completed and perfected.”b. “We live and move and have our being.”c. “We are adopted and made worthy of eternal life.”