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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 does the author state was different about Jesus and his beliefs about the Kingdom of God?
(a) He believed them.
(b) He acted upon them.
(c) He could convince powerful people of the validity of his claims.
(d) He did not believe them.

2. What are the two traditional spiritual responses to evil in the world?
(a) The hate-filled and the love-filled.
(b) The sane and the insane.
(c) The economic and the illogical.
(d) The miraculous and the revolutionary.

3. Who does the author say reinterprets the circumstances of Jesus' death?
(a) The Christian Movement.
(b) The Romans.
(c) The People's Movement.
(d) The Egyptians.

4. Whose leadership did Jesus establish during the miracle of the loaves and the bread?
(a) St. Peter's.
(b) St. Joseph's.
(c) St.Paul's.
(d) St. David's.

5. Which stories does the author break down and analyze at the end of this section?
(a) The burial stories.
(b) The resurrection stories.
(c) The birth stories.
(d) The crucific stories.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose gospel does the author quote extensively from in this section?

2. What does the author call Jesus' miracles like walking on water and filling the the fisherman's nets with fish?

3. What does the author say Jesus was trying to break down?

4. What does one Biblical story say that Jesus cast out of human beings?

5. What other disease does the author say attracted negative attention to its victims?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does the author think crucifixion was the ultimate form of punishment?

2. In what way could Christians have a problem with the author factualizing the crucifixion?

3. What does the author think Jesus was an individualist?

4. What were the reasons Jesus went to Jerusalem?

5. What parallels does cross-cultural research draw between Jesus' teachings and other philosophies?

6. What do the two quotes at the beginning of the section comment on?

7. What does the author say about Pontius Pilate?

8. Describe the quotes at the beginning of this section?

9. How does the author interpret the story of Jesus casting demons into a herd of pigs?

10. Why does the author quote extensively from the gospel of St. Luke?

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