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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 Zacchaeus's profession?
(a) Barber.
(b) Rabbi.
(c) Tax collector.
(d) Politician.

2. What changes politically with the death of Jesus?
(a) The Roman Empire falls very quickly.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Jews begin to rule again in Palestine.
(d) Herod the Great is murdered.

3. What does Yancey think Easter makes Jesus?
(a) Mysterious.
(b) Dangerous.
(c) More intelligent.
(d) Powerful.

4. What for Yancey does the Old Testament underscore?
(a) Poetry is the only way to describe God.
(b) People are angry with God.
(c) The vast gulf between God and humanity.
(d) God is angry with humanity.

5. Where does Shusaku Endo grow up?
(a) Boston.
(b) Japan.
(c) Chicago.
(d) Korea.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was torn in two when Jesus died on the cross?

2. What does Yancey say about human preoccupation with the "end times"?

3. Why does Zacchaeus climb the tree?

4. How does Jesus command Jairus's daughter to come back to life?

5. What is unusual about the disease of leprosy?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who betrays Jesus to the Jewish and Roman authorities?

2. What did Mother Teresa say about what she tried to provide for the ill?

3. Why does Yancey title Chapter 11 "A Morning Beyond Belief?"

4. What does Yancey reveal in Chapter 11 about why he believes in the resurrection?

5. When Yancey's kitten is killed, what does he, the child, learn?

6. What is ironic about Jesus entering into Jerusalem on a donkey?

7. What does Jesus leave behind?

8. What does Jesus say to Pilate when asked if he is the King of the Jews?

9. What did Yancey's study of the Old Testament teach him about the word Messiah?

10. What does Jesus say about the woman who comes into the respectable house of Simon and wipes Jesus's feet with her hair?

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