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True or false: The Douay-Rheims Bible is a translation of the Bible from the Latin Vulgate into English made by members of the English College, Douai, in the service of the Catholic Church.
True
True or false: The New Testament portion of the Douay-Rheims Bible was published in Reims, France, in 1582, in one volume with extensive commentary and notes.
True
True or false: The purpose of the Douay-Rheims Bible was to support the Counter-Reformation and uphold Catholic tradition in the face of the Protestant Reformation.
True
True or false: The Rheims New Testament was predominantly edited by Fulke.
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True or false: The Challoner revision of the Douay-Rheims Bible was extensively revised by Bernard MacMahon.
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True or false: The Challoner revision of the Douay-Rheims Bible remains the Bible of choice for more-traditional English-speaking Catholics.
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True or false: The Challoner revision of the Douay-Rheims Bible was a new version based on the King James Version.
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True or false: The Douay-Rheims Bible is a translation of the Latin Vulgate, which is itself a translation of Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek texts.
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True or false: The Vulgate was largely created due to the efforts of Saint Jerome.
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True or false: Nearly all modern Bible versions go directly to original-language Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek biblical texts as their translation base.
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True or false: The Rheims New Testament follows more or less closely the Protestant version produced by William Tyndale.
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