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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, Who He Was: Chapter 4, Temptation: Showdown in the Desert.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the Zealots like?
(a) Politically conservative, preferred agrarian lifestyle.
(b) Interested in drama, opera, and art.
(c) Morals police, revolt against impure foreigners.
(d) Rich, generous, and very sociable.

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

3. What television figure does Yancy compare his early understanding of Jesus to?
(a) Mr. Rogers.
(b) Dr. Who.
(c) James Bond.
(d) Captain Kangaroo.

4. Why is Yancey drawn to Jesus, according to Chapter 1?
(a) Jesus's teaching is so complicated.
(b) Yancey can't say why.
(c) It is God's will.
(d) Jesus is the dividing point of Yancey's life.

5. What does Yancey say a major problem is in looking at the historical Jesus?
(a) Lack of language knowledge.
(b) Political agendas.
(c) No historical understanding.
(d) Flash forward analysis.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Yancey grow up?

2. What do the Essenes believe in?

3. How does the Lakota tribe refer to Jesus?

4. What is the ethnic background of Jesus?

5. Who marries the granddaughter of Augustus Caesar?

(see the answer key)

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