Question: About whom did he write his most widely-read work?
Answer: Anthony the Great

Question: Why was this work considered to be important?
Answer: spreading of the ascetic ideal in Eastern and Western Christianity

Question: How did he depict Anthony?
Answer: illiterate and holy

Question: What does the Athanasian Creed draw upon?
Answer: Augustine's De trinitate

Question: Whose life did Anthony's resemble?
Answer: Athanasius

Question: Athanasius began his leading role at what age?
Answer: 27

Question: In what year was the First Council of Nicaea?
Answer: 325

Question: Athanasius was also known as what?
Answer: Athanasius Contra Mundum

Question: How many years after the First Council of Nicaea did Athanasius become archbishop?
Answer: Three years

Question: Who is one emporer Athanasius struggled against?
Answer: Constantine

Question: What conflict shaped his career?
Answer: Conflict with Arius and Arianism

Question: Why was the First Council of Nicaea convened?
Answer: Jesus of Nazareth, is of a distinct substance from the Father

Question: Because of his conflicts with the emperors, how was he known?
Answer: Athanasius Against the World

Question: Whose position was it that Jesus was the Son of God?
Answer: the Arian position

Question: Were the pretend baptisms real?
Answer: the baptisms were genuine

Question: As a child, Athanasius imitated what ritual?
Answer: ritual of Christian baptism

Question: What work did the Bishop suggest for Athanasius?
Answer: clerical careers

Question: Why was Athanasius instructed to stop pretend baptising?
Answer: not been properly catechized

Question: Where was persecution of Christianity the worst?
Answer: in the East

Question: What famous Greek author did Athanasius  quote?
Answer: Homer

Question: In what year was Peter of Alexandria martyred?
Answer: in 311

Question: Who could have been one of Athanasius's teachers?
Answer: Peter of Alexandria

Question: What suggests that Athanasius was familiar with ancient Greek philosophers?
Answer: quoting Plato

Question: What made Arius's belief about Jesus different from Alexander's?
Answer: Son (Logos) of God, made, not begotten

Question: Was this differing view common among Christians of the day?
Answer: common Christological view

Question: What other leaders believed this?
Answer: powerful bishops

Question: What eventually happened to Arius?
Answer: excommunicated by Alexander

Question: Who did Athanasius succeed?
Answer: Alexander

Question: How many exiles did he endure?
Answer: five exiles

Question: The churches of what countries were in his territory?
Answer: Egypt and Libya

Question: Was he united with the Arians in his beliefs?
Answer: disputes against Arians

Question: Where is Gaul currently located?
Answer: Belgium / Holland and surrounding areas

Question: What was the verdict at the Council of Sardica?
Answer: his innocence reaffirmed

Question: With whom did Athanasius travel to Sardica?
Answer: Hosius of Cordoba

Question: About what did the Council of the Church question Athanasius?
Answer: misdemeanours and even murder

Question: Was Athanasius permitted admission to the Council?
Answer: objections were overridden by the orthodox bishops

Question: In what year did Pope Julius die?
Answer: 352

Question: Did Liberius sympathize with Athanasius?
Answer: Liberius had been favourable

Question: Where the men armed who arrested him?
Answer: armed men

Question: What was the outcome of the Council of Milan?
Answer: a fourth condemnation of Athanasius

Question: What was  Athanasius doing when he was arrested?
Answer: engaged in services

Question: Who had a policy of condemning Athanasius?
Answer: the Arians

Question: What was Athanasius doing the next time an arrest was attempted?
Answer: a vigil service

Question: Where did Athanasius flee to after this attempt?
Answer: Upper Egypt

Question: In which work did he refer to Constantius as a precursor of the Antichrist?
Answer: History of the Arians

Question: What did he write during this time?
Answer: Four Orations against the Arians

Question: Where did bishops of the West meet?
Answer: Rimini in Italy

Question: What belief was accepted by Constantius?
Answer: Arian

Question: What was the belief that was approved at this council?
Answer: The Son to be "like the Father"

Question: What did the orthodox leaders believe?
Answer: the Nicene

Question: What did the Arians agree upon at Sirmium?
Answer: a formula of faith

Question: What position did Ecdicius hold?
Answer: Prefect of Egypt

Question: Did he think he would be gone a long time?
Answer: short duration

Question: Who was jealous of Athanasius's influence?
Answer: Julian

Question: What did Julian try to do to Athanasius?
Answer: expulsion

Question: Did Athanasius tell the people to protest?
Answer: urged them to submit

Question: When did he write his first works on Orthodox Christianity?
Answer: before the Arian controversy

Question: Which of the two first works addresses pagan practices?
Answer: Against the Heathen

Question: How did he believe Jesus came into the world?
Answer: in human form

Question: Which of his works addresses redemption and the Son of God?
Answer: Incarnation of the Word of God

Question: What did he do when he thought he might be made Bishop?
Answer: fled

Question: Who did the Catholics of Alexandria want as their Bishop?
Answer: "Give us Athanasius!"

Question: When did Alexander ask to see Athanasius? 
Answer: on his death-bed

Question: Was there someone else that was preferred as Bishop?
Answer: The Bishops had nothing better

Question: Was Athanasius well liked by everyone?
Answer: many detractors

Question: What was he accused of doing to a church?
Answer: defiling an altar

Question: He was accused of selling grain for what reason?
Answer: his own personal gain

Question: What did the term Arian mean to him?
Answer: Christians who disagreed with his formulation

Question: What did he call his detractors?
Answer: Arian

Question: What was he known as soon after he died?
Answer: Pillar of the Church

Question: What day is he celebrated in the Eastern Orthodox Church?
Answer: 18 January

Question: How does the Eastern Orthodox Church refer to him?
Answer: Father of Orthodoxy

Question: What do the Protestants call him?
Answer: Father of the Canon

Question: What is his feast day in Western Christianity?
Answer: 2 May

Question: What was Alexandria known for?
Answer: important trade center

Question: Was the famous school in Alexandria religious only?
Answer: secular character

Question: Did only Christians attend the school?
Answer: influential pagans

Question: Was Alexandria welcoming to other cultures?
Answer: ethnically diverse

Question: What famous event happened in 303?
Answer: Maximian persecution

Question: What writing mentions the Arian accusation that Athanasius was under aged?
Answer: the Festal Epistles

Question: At what age was a man eligible to be ordained at Patriarch of Alexandria?
Answer: canonical age (30)

Question: Did the followers of Meletius obey the guidelines of Nicaea?
Answer: failed to abide

Question: What was Athanasius accused of planning against the Arians?
Answer: cut off essential Egyptian grain

Question: What was the verdict of the accusation?
Answer: was found guilty

Question: What was his punishment?
Answer: anathematized

Question: Who was he accused of harming?
Answer: Arians and Meletians

Question: Did Athanasius speak Greek?
Answer: knew Greek

Question: Did he understand Hebrew?
Answer: not knowing Hebrew

Question: Did he know all of the Old Testament?
Answer: limited to the Septuagint

Question: What did students learn in the school in Alexandria?
Answer: Scriptural study and of Greek

Question: What translation of the Old Testament did he study?
Answer: Septuagint Greek

Question: Who did he have to thank for his ability to come back to Alexandria in 345?
Answer: Constans