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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. The meaning of what title has changed greatly since Jesus' time?
(a) Teacher.
(b) Savior.
(c) Preacher.
(d) Messiah.
2. What was anyone who opposed the law in Jesus' time considered to be?
(a) A traitor.
(b) Heroic.
(c) A thief.
(d) A blasphemer or heretic.
3. What does Sanders say God calls his people to do?
(a) Live beneath the standard of the law.
(b) Defy the laws of man.
(c) Live at a higher standard than the law.
(d) Live at the standard of the law.
4. What did Jesus tell his followers to sacrifice?
(a) Everything.
(b) Their money.
(c) None of the answers is correct.
(d) Lambs.
5. According to Sanders, a man who divorces and remarries is considered what?
(a) A heretic.
(b) None of the answers is correct.
(c) An adulterer.
(d) A blasphemer.
6. What kind of stories did Jesus use in his teachings?
(a) Parables.
(b) Myths.
(c) Fairy Tales.
(d) Fables.
7. According to Sanders, what is against God's wishes?
(a) Failure to have children.
(b) Seeking fame.
(c) Wealth.
(d) Divorce.
8. According to Jesus, who would be given rule over the tribes of Israel?
(a) Jesus.
(b) Pilate.
(c) God.
(d) The apostles.
9. Whom does Sanders say the majority of the scriptures caters to?
(a) The apostles.
(b) The Gentiles.
(c) The Jews.
(d) The tribes of Israel.
10. What does Sanders refer to reversal of values as?
(a) Unpredictability of God.
(b) Methodism.
(c) Ethical perfectionism.
(d) Parables.
11. Jesus kept a low profile in comparison to whom?
(a) John the Baptist.
(b) Paul.
(c) Peter.
(d) Judas.
12. Who was accountable only to God?
(a) Jesus' followers.
(b) The apostles.
(c) Jesus.
(d) The people.
13. In reference to miracles, what were people in the ancient world more inclined to do?
(a) Believe.
(b) Seek them out.
(c) Ridicule those claiming to perform them.
(d) Disbelieve.
14. What group does Sanders speculate the ministry of Jesus believed would not accept Jesus' portrayal of God?
(a) Christians.
(b) Gentiles.
(c) Israelites.
(d) Jews.
15. How were miracle workers probably treated in ancient times?
(a) They were ridiculed.
(b) They were feared.
(c) They were arrested.
(d) They were celebrated.
Short Answer Questions
1. What did Jesus say people who followed him would come to know?
2. Which apostle do scholars say would not have been rewarded?
3. The laws of what area are discussed in Chapter 14?
4. Opposition of the law was a basis for major conflict between the government of Jesus' time and what group?
5. Whom were the apostles accountable to?
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