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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Jesus' s first official act as an adult?
(a) Meeting Satan in the wilderness.
(b) Raising Lazarus from the dead.
(c) Writing the book of John.
(d) Becoming an official rabbi.

2. When is the document by Publius Lentulus forged?
(a) 1514.
(b) 1313.
(c) 1950.
(d) 60.

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

4. How many laws do the Pharisees discover?
(a) 10.
(b) 45,600.
(c) 613.
(d) 30,000.

5. What does supersessionism mean?
(a) Some religions grow out of and supersede others.
(b) Suppression of religion is good.
(c) Super religion suppresses other lesser religion.
(d) There is no way to suppress Christianity.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the Zealots like?

2. What magazine is Jimmy Carter famously interviewed about lust in?

3. Who is the treasurer for Jesus's disciples?

4. When does Yancey first get acquainted with Jesus?

5. Who are the 'Jesus freaks' referred to in Chapter 1?

Short Essay Questions

1. What experience did Yancey have that began to change his understanding of Jesus?

2. What may Satan have taken away from the confrontation with Jesus in the wilderness?

3. What are the Beatitudes?

4. What does Henri Nouwen do that is so unusual?

5. What does Yancey say is the true meaning of Christmas?

6. What is Jacob Neuser's primary objection to Jesus?

7. What is Yancey's interpretation of why God decided not to come in clouds of glory and fix everything?

8. What does Yancey discover as he begins to study the Jesus of the Gospels?

9. What is it that restores Jesus's humanity for Yancey?

10. What is the one word label Yancey would bestow upon Jesus?

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