Eastside COC Women’s Class Practice Test

The question tests your knowledge of who belonged to Jesus’ original circle of twelve apostles—the core group he chose to carry on his teaching. Peter is one of that group, named repeatedly as an apostle in the Gospel accounts and in Acts, and he is often seen as a leading figure among them. Stephen, on the other hand, was a deacon who played a key early Christian role and became the first martyr; he is not counted among the original twelve. Mark and Luke are associated with the Gospels as writers, but they were not part of the Twelve; Luke is known as a companion of Paul, and Mark is connected to Peter and Paul in other ways but not as one of the Twelve. So Peter is the best answer because he is explicitly identified as part of the original twelve apostles.