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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the Essenes believe in?
(a) Pacificism, purity, and seperatation from society.
(b) Dionysian festivals of drunken merrymaking.
(c) Essence of spirit came from drinking no water.
(d) Poetry, painting, and basket weaving.

2. What does Ivan Karamazov write?
(a) The Brothers Karamozov.
(b) Fifth symphony in Bflat.
(c) Jesus, Son of God.
(d) "The Grand Inquisitor" poem.

3. What is the Golden Rule?
(a) Get all you can when you can.
(b) Do to others as you would have them do to you.
(c) Gold is not worth its weight.
(d) Give to the poor more than to the rich.

4. Who writes For the Time Being?
(a) W. H. Auden.
(b) Mariamne Herod.
(c) Apostle Paul.
(d) Stalin.

5. How many times is the Augustus Caesar mentioned in the Bible?
(a) Thousand times.
(b) Fifty times.
(c) Ten times.
(d) One time.

6. What does Yancey think the church has turned Jesus into, according to Chapter 1?
(a) Boring and predictable person.
(b) Money-making idol.
(c) Raging Lion of Judah.
(d) Larger than life figure.

7. According to Yancey, what kind of man was Tolstoy?
(a) A deeply unhappy man.
(b) The best father ever.
(c) A great friend, husband, and sweetheart to all.
(d) Simply a bundle of joy and hope.

8. How many people are killed in the earthquake of 31 B.C. in Palestine?
(a) 300.
(b) 30,000.
(c) 150.
(d) 2 million.

9. What does Satan get from the Temptation episode?
(a) Power over Jesus.
(b) Victory over God's will.
(c) Free reign to keep doing what he wants.
(d) A partner in crime.

10. How old was Tolstoy when he wrote Resurrection?
(a) 71.
(b) 30.
(c) 15.
(d) 55.

11. Who does the German Christian Church admire in 1933?
(a) Adolf Hitler.
(b) David Koresh.
(c) Jim Jones.
(d) Helmut Thielicke.

12. What does the word "gospel" mean?
(a) Good News.
(b) God's spell.
(c) Good Riddance.
(d) Book of rules.

13. How does the Lakota tribe refer to Jesus?
(a) Peace Giver.
(b) Son of Almighty.
(c) Lamb of God.
(d) Buffalo calf of God.

14. What does Yancey find remarkable about Mary?
(a) Too young to have children.
(b) Jewish and not well born.
(c) Accepted Jesus on his own terms, regardless of the cost.
(d) Managed to have a baby on her own.

15. How many ordinary activities do the Pharisees outlaw on the Sabbath?
(a) 12.
(b) 3.
(c) 100.
(d) 39.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of Messiah is Jesus?

2. According to Yancey, what is the primary emotion in most religions when one approaches God?

3. How does Albert Schweitzer interpret the Sermon on the Mount?

4. How many Jews live in the Roman Empire in the first century?

5. What does Wim Wender makes films about?

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