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Which of the following was not a key aspect of the writing system of the Phoenicians?
 
  a. Its phonetic base could be understood by most languages.
  b. Vowels were not used, as readers could insert them.
  c. The system was easy to learn and memorize.
  d. Each of the 22 letters represented a different consonant.
  e. It had no pictorial symbols.

Question 2

How do historians regard the gospels of Mark, Matthew, Luke, and John?
 
  a. They do not use the gospels at all.
  b. They use some parts of the gospels in writing history but discard many others.
  c. They see the gospels as not terribly helpful in reconstructing the history of that era.
  d. They treat them as solid factual accounts of Jesus's life and times.
  e. They use them to recreate the past, recognizing that they may be biased documents since they were written by devotees of early Christianity.



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Answer to Question 1

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Answer to Question 2

e



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