Q 01/05

Which sin is considered the original and worst of the seven on almost every list?

A) Greed

B) Wrath

C) Lust

D) Pride

Answer · why

D) Pride

It is viewed as the source of the other capital sins and the opposite of humility.

Q 02/05

Which pope revised the list of deadly sins into its familiar form in AD 590?

A) Leo I

B) Gregory I

C) Innocent III

D) Boniface VIII

Answer · why

B) Gregory I

He folded sorrow into sloth, vanity into pride, and added envy to make seven.

Q 03/05

Which sin was added in 590 that had not been on the earlier list of eight?

A) Envy

B) Greed

C) Wrath

D) Lust

Answer · why

A) Envy

Its Latin name is invidia; he also merged two pairs of older vices to land on seven.

Q 04/05

How many forms of temptation did the monk Evagrius Ponticus settle on in the fourth century?

A) Five

B) Seven

C) Eight

D) Ten

Answer · why

C) Eight

His Greek list of logismoi included sadness and boasting, which later lists merged away.

Q 05/05

Which student of Evagrius carried his list of vices into the Latin West?

A) Augustine of Hippo

B) Jerome

C) John Cassian

D) Ambrose

Answer · why

C) John Cassian

Cassian's Latin list included tristitia (sorrow) and vanagloria (vainglory) as separate entries.